Blending

in my garden
what it is that music is trying to say
the melody has opened a gate
where past and present 
mingle together
in the mirror
Clearly I can see
the younger and older me
made of dreams and reality
floating and grounded
halves getting together
petals making beauty
my delicious walk in the rain
washing off all the sorrow
lightness is welcoming

W3 and Reena’s Exploration Challenge

W3 :: The wheels in my mind

The wheels in my mind go 'round and 'round
'Round and 'round, 'round and 'round
The wheels in my mind go 'round and 'round
anxiety is skyrocketing

My mind goes back and forward
back and forward
My mind goes back and forward
anxiety is skyrocketing

A decision needs to be made
this way or that way
A decision needs to be made
anxiety is skyrocketing

Indecision and what-if
making me crazy
indecision and what-if
anxiety is skyrocketing

Overthinking is stressing me out 
nothing is perfect
overthinking is stressing me out
anxiety is skyrocketing

Unstuck and go ahead
ahead and ahead
unstuck and go ahead
anxiety is skyrocketing

W3 – Deanna’s prompt: Mother Goose Muse

For many of us, our first introduction to poetry came through nursery rhymes — those strange, playful, memorable verses we heard long before we understood what poetry even was.

For this week’s W3 challenge, you are invited to use a nursery rhyme as inspiration for an original poem. Your poem does not need to rhyme, and it may be written in any form you choose, but please try to keep it to no more than 24 lines.

You might:

  1. Incorporate a nursery rhyme character into your poem — as narrator, subject, symbol, or inspiration.
  2. Borrow or adapt an opening line from a nursery rhyme.
  3. Simply follow the memory of a rhyme wherever it leads you.

W3 :: the veil

thoughts
the mind goes far
here and now
there and then
be still, hear
the veil holds the truth

No image for this poem, I’d love to know what your thoughts are: Happy, sad, a start or an ending. What is this poem about? As the prompt asks, a dramatic moment where something changes.

Thanks, Ange for the great prompt!

II. Ange’s prompt: One-syllable challenge

For this week’s W3 challenge, writers are invited to capture a dramatic moment in just a handful of lines — a storm breaking, a glass shattering, a door slamming, a sudden realization, or any instant where something changes sharply or unexpectedly.

You may write in any poetic form, with the following restrictions:

  1. Your poem must be between 5 and 8 lines long.
  2. Every single word in the poem must be one syllable long.
  3. You are allowed one multi-syllable word — but it must appear as the very last word of the poem.

Have fun with the tension this creates. Sometimes the smallest words carry the greatest force.