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In the lead up to Issue III’s theme announcement on Sunday, 4th July, we are releasing three prompts this week which are linked in some way to the upcoming issue. These prompts can be used to inspire poetry, prose, photography & art.
Our top three favourites will be shared on the blog next week! Post your response as a comment or as a link in the comments.
Not sure this is what you had in mind, but it is what my mind responded with https://jotnrot.wordpress.com/2021/06/21/let-me-in-let-me-out/?preview=true
Grounded
Flitting bird cries across the sky
Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Elizabeth . . .
Her trailing grief
Alights in the heart
Pieces to the center
Swells to break against four shores
Leaving hair curlers in the sand.
Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Elizabeth . . .
An impossibly splitting soprano
Shadow against the sun
A woman stamps her feet and dances
To the husky voice of a summer squash
Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Elizabeth . . .
Tempting her soul from her bones.
Here’s mine on your lovely prompt
https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2021/06/22/runaround-a-senryu/
Coming Home
I think that today
will be my home coming day,
the day I come back
to where I belong
even though,
I was never here before,
never in this place,
never with this person.
I know I’m home.
I can feel it.
And know I will stay
and that you
will stay
with me.
This place and this person,
have engulfed me.
Surrounded me in sweetness
and brought me back
from wherever I was,
Brought me home.
It’s the day I’ve been waiting for.
Lynn White
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