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Friday, April 1, 2011
April PAD Challenge: Personal Mythology Prompt Day One - Recycling the First Dream
I wish I could have dreams like that Kirsten! Mine more often than not seem to reflect free floating anxiety: having to move again, forgetting my locker combination, being late for a test... I love yours!
Well the poem isn't the dream. The prompt was to write down a dream from childhood - my most vivid one was a nightmare where a lion chased me; terrifying. So the poem that has resulted from the further following of the prompt (to write down things like people and places in the dream, verbs and nouns, etc., then chosing the words you're drawn to to write a poem from - dream realted or not) ended up in turning the nightmare into something beautiful. I'm very pleased with what I came out with. Glad you enjoyed it, Cara :) Why don't you have a go at the prompt and turn one of your dreams of angst into words of comfort?
A lovely sense of golden strength and softness!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the positive feedback! :)
ReplyDeleteI wish I could have dreams like that Kirsten! Mine more often than not seem to reflect free floating anxiety: having to move again, forgetting my locker combination, being late for a test... I love yours!
ReplyDeleteWell the poem isn't the dream. The prompt was to write down a dream from childhood - my most vivid one was a nightmare where a lion chased me; terrifying. So the poem that has resulted from the further following of the prompt (to write down things like people and places in the dream, verbs and nouns, etc., then chosing the words you're drawn to to write a poem from - dream realted or not) ended up in turning the nightmare into something beautiful. I'm very pleased with what I came out with. Glad you enjoyed it, Cara :) Why don't you have a go at the prompt and turn one of your dreams of angst into words of comfort?
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ReplyDeletewelcome share 1 to 3 poem s with our poetry potluck week 29,
we are open until Wednesday, 8pm..
Hope to see you in.
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Thanks for stopping by :) Will check it out!
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