FWE Using your 5 senses in poetry ~ FWE Something in the way ~ Oct. 29th - Nov. 4th

FWE - Using Your 5 Senses in Poetry

Last week we had  16 excellent poems for 'FWE 6th sense or spooky'

 

They are all featured on the home page of Gather Writing Essentials.

 

 

 

Write any kind of poetry,  prosetry  or a prose poem, blank  or free verse, or a known poetic form. Or slam poetry. I'm sticking to poetry rather than opening it up to prose (except prose poems), because what poetry teaches us applies to all writing: Poetry uses imagery, metaphor and rhythm, but in a more condensed form than prose.

Prompt: For the week of October 29th to November 4th  ~ 'FWE - Something in the way'

 

Last week, in a discussion with Barbary Chaapel, she said she loves the Beatles song, Something, below, and suggested 'something in the way'

And in another discussion with Elsie Duggan on her FWE Fire or Smoke, Elsie wrote that she loved the smell of smoke and watching her husband Bill hold a cigarette, ah!

That pose -- of holding a cigarette, either the French or American way -- that really gets us.

(I don't like smoking either and haven't for years, but that is beside the point).

So the prompt is: ~  FWE Something in the way ~    She/he/it moves

A parent, a child, a friend, a dancer, a pet, the earth. And so on.

This is to describe a posture or an action that has moved you. The point here is not the action or pose but how it moved you.

Perhaps an endearing action by a pet, perhaps something your parent or child did, or a friend, a lover, or how the earth moves. 

Use your senses.

How does this  ~  pose or gesture affect your heart and soul?    Your sense of smell, taste, hearing, touch? ~ What do you feel?

 

This does not have to be memoir.  You can make it up.

You can have more than one 'something in the way' gestures/poses/actions.

Obviously, the earth doesn't dance, but to me, she does. Always feel free to use metaphor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Muybridge, 1893 Creative Commons

Dancers, Wikipedia, creative commons

 

Make it subtle, make it real. Make me feel it – make me feel what you feel when that friend or pet or special someone does that special something.           'something in the way'

Or the way the earth moves. I will probably write about the earth, metaphorically.

In prose, that's called 'showing'.

In poetry, the same dynamic works. Make the reader feel.

Deadline: (GMT-5) Thursday  November 4th midnight, ET.

A little tough for those on PT, I realize, or for those on Alaska time. Or for those on International Time.

Put 'FWE Something in the way' in your title and tag.

I will use 'FWE Something in the way' as the search term.

If you don't have the correct  tags  or  title or if you don't post to

Gather Writing Essentials, I won't find your poem.

If you want to include the prompt and its rules in your draft or submission (to help you remember) feel free to do so, but it's not a requirement.

Post to Gather Writing Essentials.