Hi. I'm Maria. Nice to meet you. This
is my first time writing a prompt for OctPoWriMo.
Can I touch you?
No matter how you feel about being
touched, I'm not physically able to touch you, however, my words
might, my ideas might, poetry will.
I remember the first time someone asked
if they could kiss me, it would have been my first “real” kiss,
but the question stole my idea of the passion of it. I got mad and
said NO even though I wanted it. Why would that kiss have been
different? What in that touching of lips would have been different
without the surprise of the movie ideal slow-move? Why does a kiss
even have meaning that is different than touching of fingers, or
hips, or toes?
I have absolutely no connection or
rights to this video. It's just on youtube.
I was going to avoid this video that
kept coming up when I looked up Touch, but watching it, I laughed out
loud twice: the first time I saw the “flesh-colored” vinyl bodice
over her pink sweatshirt and then when she danced in it trying to be
sexy. Okay, I laughed a lot more than that. As a costumer this is
the funniest video I've seen in a long time. I thought I'd include it
because the few words in the song have a lot to do with how we think
about touch.
Prompt: A small touch can mean so much. But was it intended? What is touching you right now? What are you touching?
What's great about that video is the
visuals contradict the message. Those dancer's are as interested in
touching floors and walls as people, but it does project the idea
that touch is about sensuality and wanting to be touched—I would
say—desperately.
Word prompts
I usually think of texture as
adjectives, but today I want touch to be active. What happens when we
use texture words as verbs? Objects bump, welt, smooth. And what do
textures do to you? They can melt, dry, chill, prick, grate, knot,
soften.
Poetry type: Clarity Pyramid
Remember, our prompts are only suggestions, you can find your inspiration wherever your muse leads you. Please visit the other participants, share the hashtag, #OctPoWriMo on social media, and share your link in the comments below. Let us know how this journey into poetry is going for you and if this is your first year or if you have been with us from the beginning.
Maria L. Berg enjoys brisk swims in the
Pacific Northwest. Her short fiction has appeared in Five on the
Fifth, America's Emerging Writers Anthology and most recently in
Writer Shed Stories. She writes and photo-illustrates Gator McBumpypants picture books and plays many instruments. You can find
her poetry at experiencewriting.com.
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