PromptlySusan: September 28, 2011 #20

The best writers most often, like the best athletes, work their craft daily, training, stretching, and sweating at the brow. Join the team and try these prompts. Pick one, some, or all.

Poetry: Ghazal (which, I admit, is a little more challenging, but we havean extra day to submit it)
Prose: prayer
All Words: ground, gravy, goal, gumption
Phrase (use this directly or to inform your work): Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. --Robert H. Schuller
Theme: the other side of the world
Graphic:

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Submissions to last week's prompt #19:

Autumn by Kerry Dexter

Language by A. F. Stewart

Quilt by Joann B.

A Cinquain by Hinda Rochel Anolick

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Comments: 11

Bernard C. Sep 28, 2011, 2:50am UTC

A good prompt and challenge - good luck to all participants :-))

Thanks for submitting to
The Surreal Circus.

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Marilyn is looking for whatever there is. N. Sep 28, 2011, 2:58am UTC

Another good prompt -- I'm getting farther and farther behind.

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JOHN BECK Sep 28, 2011, 6:27am UTC

Nice broad choices.

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Ann Marcaida Sep 28, 2011, 2:09pm UTC

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Elsie Duggan Sep 28, 2011, 11:32pm UTC

I love the form, and if you like to ramble, I think they are wonderful, I am going to try and catch up, I feel so guilty, I never used to miss a prompt, got to set aside some writing time for me, take care, love, Elsie

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Sep 29, 2011, 12:33am UTC

Thanks for the thumbs-up on the form.
And sister, instead of taking time to feel guilty, take time to write. It's so much more rewarding. ;-)

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Elsie Duggan Sep 29, 2011, 2:36am UTC

Well, it took me a minute to say that :), but would take me much longer to write a poem, have been doing comments tonight, I am behind on that too, sure you know that feeling, take care, and I will write, love, Elsie

Marilyn is looking for whatever there is. N. Sep 29, 2011, 3:42pm UTC

I'm behind on everything, right there with you, Elsie!

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Hinda Rochel Anolick Oct 5, 2011, 1:39pm UTC

Well I'm sort of mad at you Susan...not really of course, but I went and tried the ghazal and did so horribly! It is an interesting form though... I find it very hard not to connect the various couplets, and to leave them, basically, as separate poems. I guess that is what one has to do though...write five poems which end with the same rhyme scheme & line. VERY difficult...at least for me.

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Oct 5, 2011, 3:13pm UTC

The first one I wrote was very strongly linked. I realized my error and wrote another. The more you do, Hinda, the better it gets. Promise.

If you go to my link above, to the Mindful Poetry column on ghazals, that links you to Robert Bly's Stealing Sugar from the Castle. It makes me melt.

Hinda Rochel Anolick Oct 5, 2011, 3:17pm UTC

I liked that one also...I am going to try more as it is an interesting form that I want to work on. It forces you to put complex thoughts into very terse statements.

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