Poetry Prompt 31 - The OctPoWriMo Journey

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ernest Hemingway

Image by Morgan Dragonwillow

The last day of OctPoWriMo has arrived. It always seems to go by so fast. How has your journey been for you? Have you discovered new ways to write poetry? Were you able to dive deeper into the words and uncovered new/old truths?

I want to thank Bev and Tamara for helping out this year, I couldn't do this without our loving and compassionate voluteers!

I want to thank you for showing up, reading our prompts, and writing your poetry whether you used our prompts or not. I am just glad you came along for the ride and explored poetry with us.

Photo by Morgan Dragonwillow

Poetry Prompt: 

Write for ten minutes about your journey with poetry this month, ask yourself some of the questions I posed up above.

Word Prompts:

trip
expedition
excursion
trek
voyage
cruise
ride
drive
jaunt

Sentence Starters: 

The journey isn't ending...
exploring my depths...

Thank you so much for joining us, I hope you decide to join us again next year. Remember you can share your poetry all year long in our facebook group, Writing Poetry Group. I will also share with the group any prompts I write during the year within the group.

Oh and for those that would like to do some catching up with their poetry, the links will be open until Nov. 7th at the end of the day EST.


Peace to you,
Morgan Dragonwillow

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Aishah (yesterday's prompt)	13.	Misky	25.	Beth Camp
2.	tournesol at Tracesofthesouol	14.	Carol Campbell	26.	D.L. Lang
3.	Opal from Team Netherworld	15.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	27.	Jennifer Cunningham
4.	vivienne blake	16.	Amrita Paul	28.	Candy
5.	Cressida	17.	Aishah	29.	Diary of a Writerbee
6.	shilyot. the lull after	18.	TwoPaisePoems	30.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)
7.	Deepti Agrawal	19.	Nithya Venkat	31.	Mark Jones
8.	Al the Author	20.	barbara	32.	Mary Holm Reed
9.	Dawn D	21.	Here, There be a Writer	33.	jazzytower
10.	Dawn D (Happy Halloween)	22.	Esther Spurrill Jones	34.	scribblesmcgee
11.	Payal Agarwal	23.	S. Elle Cameron	35.	Steph
12.	Sunita Prasad	24.	wojin eric jack schmidly	36.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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Sensitivity

So we're almost there! We can see November on the horizon and I bet some of you are doing NaNoWriMo too! It's a bittersweet day where I'm so glad of all we're accomplishing together but I'll also miss sharing and reading with you lovely poets.

With all the feelings I've had, I thought for my last prompt of 2015 to think about the senses.

Your prompt today is to write a poem that incorporates each of the senses (Or I guess if you want, focus in on one of them?) Free for all on the form, but go one by one with see, feel, smell, hear, and taste. Tell me a story or tell me a memory. Really put the reader into that fleeting moment of life so that in every way those words are alive. Let them be the truth of the moment.

Wow, that was a short post.

Word Prompts:  
Present
Icy
Embers
Moonlight


Sentence prompts: 
Then it hit me like...
The breeze came through the window...
I love...
Into the puddle...


Photo of the day: 

Photo by BeverlyTanPhotography 

I love you guys and I'm so proud of what you're doing! Keep in touch and follow me on Twitter/Instagram @BeverlyTanFilm and drop me a line sometime! I hope you've enjoyed my prompts and maybe I've been a little helpful somewhere. 

You inspire me. Keep writing! 

~Bev <3 

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Tracesofthesoul	13.	Al the Author	25.	Greg Wolford
2.	Wanda from Team Netherworld	14.	Sunita Prasad	26.	jazzytower
3.	Deepti Agrawal	15.	Beth Camp	27.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)
4.	Michelle Liew	16.	Dawn D	28.	Diary of a Writerbee
5.	Nithya Venkat	17.	lucinda Goce Bristol	29.	Aishah
6.	Cressida	18.	barbara	30.	Mark Jones
7.	vivienne blake	19.	shilyot. the lull after	31.	Kay Winter
8.	Payal Agarwal	20.	Here, There be a Writer	32.	mindlovemisery
9.	Carol Campbell	21.	Amrita Paul	33.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)
10.	Pegasus	22.	TwoPaisePoems	34.	Jennifer Cunningham
11.	Janet	23.	shilyot. the lull after	35.	Misky
12.	Esther Spurrill Jones	24.	S. Elle Cameron	36.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Drawing to a Close | OctPoWriMo Day 29

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. ~Seneca

I think this will be my final post for this month. I'm a bit sad that the month is drawing to a close. It feels like October just began to me. But all good things must end. In honor of the approaching end, let's write a poem about endings. Think about an ending that's happened in your life, and talk about the positive aspects of it. We always talk about endings in negative terms, but there's definitely occasions where the end was needed. Like when you quit the job that made you cry every morning, or you stopped smoking. Be bold and write beautifully fellow poets!

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Tournesol @ Tracesofthesoul	13.	Carol Campbell	25.	shilyot. the lull after
2.	Misty from Team Netherworld	14.	Esther Spurrill Jones	26.	Dawn D
3.	Deepti Agrawal	15.	sasha jenna gust	27.	Here, There be a Writer
4.	April	16.	cndy tomblin bullock	28.	barbara
5.	Cressida	17.	Beth Camp	29.	Candy
6.	Payal Agarwal	18.	jazzytower	30.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)
7.	Misky	19.	TwoPaisePoems	31.	Kay Winter
8.	Al the Author	20.	Greg Wolford	32.	Mark Jones
9.	Janet	21.	Amrita Paul	33.	mindlovemisery
10.	vivienne blake	22.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	34.	S. Elle Cameron
11.	Sunita Prasad	23.	Aishah	35.	Jennifer Cunningham
12.	Herbert Rick Ajit Colgate Buffet	24.	Angela	36.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Tamara Woods was raised (fairly happily) in West Virginia where she began penning poems after a boy broke her heart. She shares poetry, short stories and writer interviews on her blog, PenPaperPad. Her writing has been featured in Mamalode, In the Powder Room, and many others. She is the editor for The Reverie Journal, which released its first poetry collection early October. She also hosts #writestuff TweetChat where writers talk about writing every Tuesday at 9 pm EST. She is a hillbilly hermit living in Honolulu with her Mathmagician.

Poetry Prompt 28 - Will You Accept This Challenge?

“I have accepted the challenge of life, to be all that I can possibly be.” 

― Lailah Gifty Akita

Photo by Peter Hager at PublicDomainPictures.net

Poetry Prompt:

It is that time of year again... Every year I post this challenge. Choose your favorite poem and record yourself reading it, either an audible recording or video. Remember, all of our prompts are only suggestions, but I hope you decide to take the challenge.

Word Prompts:

confident
positive
pessimistic
sanguine
inauspicious
buoyant

Sentence Starters:

Flying into the wind...

It's a bright new day...

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Aurora from Team Netherworld	13.	Misky	25.	Grace Black
2.	Cressida	14.	chelsea Leming	26.	Here, There be a Writer
3.	Deepti Agrawal	15.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	27.	Tracesofthesoul
4.	Payal Agarwal	16.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	28.	Beth's Video!
5.	April	17.	Amrita Paul	29.	Mark Jones
6.	Sunita Prasad	18.	Aishah (yesterday's prompt)	30.	Kay Winter
7.	Dawn D	19.	Aishah	31.	mindlovemisery
8.	Al the Author	20.	shilyot the lull after	32.	jazzytower
9.	Carol Campbell	21.	Beth Camp	33.	Greg Wolford
10.	angela	22.	MDragonwillow Last Years audio	34.	Jennifer Cunningham
11.	Esther Spurrill Jones	23.	barbara	35.	S. Elle Cameron
12.	TwoPaisePoems' Audio Poem	24.	Diary of a Writerbee	36.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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Poetry Prompt 27 - Whimsical

"Because I want to believe in happy endings."

 --MDragonwillow

Photo by Morgan Dragonwillow

I'm feeling rather whimsical as I've been looking at all things Fairy for possibilities for my granddaughters holiday gifts. Hope you are enjoying this last week of OctPoWriMo and have discovered new things about yourself and your poetry as well as discovered other new poets.

Poetry Prompt:

What is your happy ending? Write for ten minutes asking yourself that question.

Word Prompts:

fanciful
playful
mischievous
waggish
quaint
quizzical
curious

Sentence Starter:

Once upon a time...
As the sun broke the horizon...

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	jazzytower	14.	Al the Author	27.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)
2.	Adam from Team Netherworld	15.	Carol Campbell	28.	scribblesmcgee
3.	Deepti Agrawal	16.	vivienne blake	29.	Tortured Cyclone
4.	Sunita Prasad	17.	Steph	30.	Kay Winter
5.	Tournesol at Tracesofthesouol	18.	Esther Spurrill Jones	31.	Camille Wylde
6.	AmritaPaul	19.	Nithya Venkat	32.	Mark Jones
7.	April	20.	Misky	33.	Jennifer Cunningham
8.	shilyot The Lull After	21.	TwoPaisePoems	34.	mindlovemisery
9.	Payal Agarwal	22.	Here, There be a Writer	35.	Lynne
10.	Dawn D	23.	Angela	36.	S. Elle Cameron
11.	Fida Islaih	24.	Aishah	37.	Sigrid Saradunn
12.	Cressida	25.	barbara
13.	Ameena k.g	26.	de jackson (WhimsyGizmo)

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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Looping Around

Alrighty, I think OctPoWriMo's greatest effect on me is that it's made me appreciate form more. Or maybe I needed more pushes to do something besides scribble letters on napkins at the wine lounge. I like circles. My filmmaker heart gets super happy when I see things come back and the full circle becomes complete so that's what I'm thinking about today as I write this post.

Today we are exploring loop poetry!

This one is a fairly freeform compared to some of the other ones, and I promise it's easier than the paradelle!

How to Loop: 
There are no restrictions on meter or syllables or rhyme schemes (YAY!)
BUT we have a few rules!

• Take the last word of a line. Skip a line. Use that word as the first word of that line. 
• I know, sounds harder than it is, so basically take the last word of the FIRST line and use it as the first word of the THIRD line. Take the last word of the SECOND line and use it as the first word of the FORTH line. Last word of the THIRD line is the first word of the FIFTH line. And it keeps going on and on like that. 
• Some people do it by stanzas. 
• There is also a variation where there's no skipping and the last word of the line simply becomes the first word of the next line. Simpler, but personally I think it's a LOT harder. 

Got it? Sounds fun right! 

Word Prompts: 

Cycle

Transparent 

Petrichor- the scent of rain on dry earth 

Rarity 

Sentence Prompts: 

So it started... 

Pretty as a... 

Tiptoeing around the... 

Photo of the day: 

Photo by Beverly Tan Photography 

Dress and modeling by Olivia Mears at Avant-Geek 

Wrote something? As always link up below and tweet/instagram me at @beverlytanfilm #octpowrimo so I can share it! 

I love hearing what you think and remember, these prompts are just suggestions and my attempts to inspire some muse. 

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Cressida	15.	Misky	29.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
2.	Deepti Agrawal	16.	madeline brownback	30.	S. Elle Cameron
3.	Sadie from Team Netherworld	17.	benji	31.	Candy
4.	Tournesol at Tracesofthesoul	18.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	32.	Grace Black
5.	AmritaPaul	19.	Nithya Venkat	33.	Kay Winter
6.	shilyot	20.	TwoPaisePoems	34.	Aishah
7.	Bastet	21.	Esther Spurrill Jones	35.	Steph
8.	Angela	22.	Al the Author	36.	Diary of a Writerbee
9.	Sunita Prasad	23.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	37.	Mark Jones
10.	April	24.	vivienne blake	38.	Camille Wylde
11.	Dawn D	25.	Lynne	39.	Jennifer Cunningham
12.	Payal Agarwal	26.	barbara	40.	mindlovemisery
13.	Carol Campbell	27.	scribblesmcgee	41.	Tortured Cyclone
14.	jazzytower	28.	Here, There be a Writer	42.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Childhood Favorite | OctPoWriMo Day 25

Let's take a trip down memory lane. Do you remember your most beloved childhood toy? Was it a well-loved teddy bear missing a button eye? Did you have a Transformer that was the best thing ever? Or were you like me and instead of a favorite toy, you had a favorite blankie. Whatever happened to it? Do you remember a story about the toy? Do your remember why it gave you so much joy? Tell us about your childhood favorite it today's poem. It's day 25 y'all. The end is nigh! I hope you're enjoying yourselves and reading each others writing. Until next time...

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Bastet	14.	Nithya Venkat	27.	Aishah
2.	Cie from Team Netherworld	15.	Angela	28.	shelby albert rogers
3.	Tournesol @Tracesofthesoul	16.	Al the Author	29.	Kay Winter
4.	Deepti Agrawal Day 24	17.	de jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	30.	Beth Camp
5.	Sunita Prasad	18.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	31.	Camille Wylde
6.	Deepti Agrawal - Toy Story	19.	Jennifer Cunningham	32.	mindlovemisery
7.	Payal Agarwal	20.	barbara	33.	Tortured Cyclone
8.	Cressida	21.	Here, There be a Writer	34.	Mark Jones
9.	Dawn D	22.	Diary of a Writerbee	35.	Misky
10.	Esther Spurrill Jones	23.	shilyot The lull after	36.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
11.	Carol Campbell	24.	paper sea	37.	S. Elle Cameron
12.	Amrita Paul	25.	Pegasus	38.	Greg Wolford
13.	TwoPaisePoems	26.	jazzytower	39.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Tamara Woods was raised (fairly happily) in West Virginia where she began penning poems after a boy broke her heart. She shares poetry, short stories and writer interviews on her blog, PenPaperPad. Her writing has been featured in Mamalode, In the Powder Room, and many others. She is the editor for The Reverie Journal, which released its first poetry collection early October. She also hosts #writestuff TweetChat where writers talk about writing every Tuesday at 9 pm EST. She is a hillbilly hermit living in Honolulu with her Mathmagician.

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” ― Philip Pullman

Photo by Bobby Mikul at PublicDomainPictures.net

Several years ago I was searching through the photos on PublicDomainPictures.net and came upon the above photo. I immediately started hearing a story poem that I ended up writing called Blind. Most of the time my poetry tends to be either how I am feeling or something from my life but sometimes, I enjoy writing story poetry.

Poetry Prompt:

Search through the photos at PublicDomainPictures.net until you find one that sparks a story poem for you.

Word Prompts:

Imaginary

tale

adventure

drama

fantasy

Poetry Type: 

With my poem, Blind, I chose to count syllables (I chose 4) and every line the same amount of syllables with the rhyming abcb format. You can choose to do the same as I did or you can go and choose a different type at ShadowPoetry.com 

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Bastet	14.	Misky	27.	Prem Laszlo Shrock Riesbeck Ottino
2.	Thalia from Team Netherworld	15.	Carol Campbell	28.	Here, There be a Writer
3.	vivienne blake	16.	Nithya Venkat	29.	Kay Winter
4.	vivienne blake	17.	Esther Spurrill Jones	30.	mindlovemisery
5.	Tracesofthesoul	18.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	31.	Jennifer Cunningham
6.	Sunita Prasad	19.	Lisa @ The Meaning of Me	32.	TwoPaisePoems
7.	Cressida	20.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	33.	Hali.poeticfootprints
8.	April Wells	21.	scribblesmcgee	34.	jazzytower
9.	Al the Author	22.	Candy	35.	Camille Wylde
10.	Amrita Paul	23.	Aishah	36.	Tortured Cyclone
11.	Steph	24.	Diary of a Writerbee	37.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
12.	Dawn D	25.	Mark Jones	38.	S. Elle Cameron
13.	Payal Agarwal	26.	barbara	39.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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A Drop in the Ocean

And now it's time to return to anarchy and break my streak of form prompts! Some of you are cheering, I feel it already.

Yūgen is a Japanese word pertaining to a profound awareness of the universe which evokes feelings that are inexplicably deep and too mysterious for words. 

Anyways today I'm thinking about the greatness and smallness of things in comparison to each other. Also about how small things fit as pieces to a whole.

It's all around, forest fires start from sparks, oceans are made of water drops. (There I go again with my element loving) but look around and take a moment to observe how the clothes you wear are made of tiny threats and the vastness of the sky. Try to count some of the billions of stars outside at night and realize that most of those are bigger than the sun, and there's SO many of them. But you're not just this tiny speck in space, you are a beautiful combination of tiny pieces of matter put together in a truly unique way.

Today I encourage you to think about those things as you write your poem of the day.

But of course, as always, this is just a friendly suggestion.

Word Prompts: 
Seascape
Harmony
Galactic

Sentence Prompts: 
Just a chip...
The spark lit...
And so we danced...

Photo of the day: 

Wrote something? Share it with the linky and of course tweet/instagram it to @beverlytanfilm so I can see it and retweet! Hope you're having fun! Also drop me a line about if you prefer forms or my crazy abstract rambles. 

Happy writing my loves <3 

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Steph	16.	Misky	31.	Kay Winter
2.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	17.	Grace Black	32.	Candy
3.	Bastet	18.	Aishah	33.	mindlovemisery
4.	jazzytower	19.	Carol Campbell	34.	vivienne blake
5.	Illsa from Team Netherworld	20.	obama	35.	Mark Jones
6.	Sunita Prasad	21.	Lisa @ The Meaning of Me	36.	Jennifer Cunningham
7.	Tournesol @ Tracesofthesoul	22.	Janet	37.	hali.poeticfootprints
8.	Deepti Agrawal	23.	barbara	38.	jazzytower
9.	shilyot the lull after	24.	de jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	39.	Tortured Cyclone
10.	April Wells	25.	Buddah Moskowitz	40.	Camille Wylde
11.	Cressida	26.	Amrita Paul ( Poetry prompt 20)	41.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
12.	Nithya Venkat	27.	Esther Spurrill Jones	42.	Sigrid Saradunn
13.	Payal Agarwal	28.	S. Elle Cameron	43.	Sigrid Saradunn
14.	TwoPaisePoems	29.	Here, There be a Writer
15.	Al the Author	30.	Dawn D

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Two Lies and a Truth | #OctPoWriMo Prompt 22

Have you ever played the game: Two Lies and a Truth? That's when you tell someone two things that are a lie and one thing that is the truth. And through that the person has to guess which is the truth. Let's try to play a game with our poetry today. In today's poem, let's put the focus directly on us. For some of us- myself included- it's preferable to write about others. This time around, let's tell each other two lies and one truth. Whether they're ridiculous, mundane, shocking, or interesting tidbits, weave them together so we cant' tell the difference. You can decide on your post whether you want people to guess the truth or just tell them. Remember the prompts are just suggestions and have fun!

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	The Real Cie from Team Netherworld	14.	Lisa @ The Meaning of Me	27.	barbara
2.	Bastet	15.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	28.	Kay Winter
3.	Michelle Liew	16.	Diary of a Writerbee	29.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
4.	Payal Agarwal	17.	Esther Spurrill Jones	30.	Jennifer Cunningham
5.	Sunita Prasad	18.	vivienne blake	31.	Mark Jones
6.	Misky	19.	Candy	32.	S. Elle Cameron
7.	Al the Author	20.	shilyot the lull after	33.	Tortured Cyclone
8.	Carol Campbell	21.	Here, There be a Writer	34.	jazzytower
9.	Dawn D	22.	tracesofthesoul	35.	Camille Wylde
10.	Steph	23.	shilyot the lull after	36.	mindlovemisery
11.	TwoPaisePoems	24.	Cressida	37.	Cara Michaels
12.	lucindanne	25.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	38.	Sigrid Saradunn
13.	Aishah	26.	Grace Black

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Tamara Woods was raised (fairly happily) in West Virginia where she began penning poems after a boy broke her heart. She shares poetry, short stories and writer interviews on her blog, PenPaperPad. Her writing has been featured in Mamalode, In the Powder Room, and many others. She is the editor for The Reverie Journal, which released its first poetry collection early October. She also hosts #writestuff TweetChat where writers talk about writing every Tuesday at 9 pm EST. She is a hillbilly hermit living in Honolulu with her Mathmagician.

Poetry Prompt 21 - Overwhelm

“...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...” ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

Photo by Morgan Dragonwillow

I really enjoy working with Shadow Poetry's different types of poetry and today we are moving on to the Ballad. I must admit that when I first read the description I was a little intimidated; it seemed complicated. But once I read their example I realized that I had already written a similar type without realizing it when I wrote The Ways Not Clear a couple of years ago. I hope you decide to try this one.

Poetry Prompt: 

In honor of my week of feeling overwhelmed, I challenge you to write into your feelings of overwhelm; when you feel it, how you feel it, what happens when you feel it, and what you do about it.

Word Prompt: 

swamp
submerge
engulf
bury
deluge
flood
inundate

Sentence Starters: 

If I admit I am feeling overwhelmed...
When I feel overwhelmed...

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1.	Cie from team Netherworld	15.	Marcie Barack Lankford Ramsey Constantin	29.	Kay Winter
2.	Deepti Agrawal	16.	Al the Author	30.	Shan Jeniah Burton
3.	Tracesofthesoul	17.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	31.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
4.	vivienne blake	18.	barbara	32.	Jennifer Cunningham
5.	Michelle Liew	19.	Aishah	33.	Mark Jones
6.	Dawn D	20.	Carol Campbell	34.	CreativelyLiberated
7.	Steph	21.	Beth Camp	35.	Grace Black
8.	Janet	22.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	36.	mindlovemisery
9.	Nithya Venkat	23.	Candy	37.	S. Elle Cameron
10.	Sunita Prasad	24.	Pegasus	38.	Cara Michaels
11.	Esther Spurrill Jones	25.	Here, There be a Writer	39.	Tortured Cyclone
12.	Misky	26.	Cressida	40.	jazzytower
13.	Payal Agarwal	27.	poeticfootprints	41.	Camille Wylde
14.	Bastet	28.	Tamara @ PenPaperPad	42.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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Poetry Prompt 20 - Love Poetry

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ― Maya Angelou

Photo by Morgan Dragonwillow

Poetry Prompt:

Time to write a love poem. Now just because it is a love poem doesn't mean it has to be between lovers, it can be the love you had for your favorite pet when you were growing up (or now), it could be for your kids, it could be your best friend. Or, you could do something fun from a prompt I shared in the 2013 OctPoWriMo, Love Letters, Not What You Are Expecting.

Word Prompts:

fondness
tenderness
warmth
intimacy
attachment
endearment

Possible Poetry type: Loop Poetry, an invented form at Shadowpoetry.com

I have discovered a new poet, at least a new poet to me, Andrea Gibson. Gibson's poetry speaks to me on many levels and if you haven't read Gibson's poetry I highly recommend it. I just bought, The Madness Vase and can't wait to dive into it. Have you discovered any new poetry books lately?

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1.	Bastet	16.	Al the Author	31.	Grace Black
2.	Tempest from Team Netherworld	17.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	32.	ocean bones
3.	Tracesofthesoul	18.	Steph	33.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
4.	Deepti Agrawal	19.	Here, There be a Writer	34.	Kay Winter
5.	Misky	20.	the lull after shilyot	35.	Mark Jones
6.	Sunita Prasad	21.	Aishah	36.	Michelle Liew
7.	Fida Islaih	22.	Connie Mae Inglis	37.	Jennifer Cunningham
8.	Nithya Venkat	23.	barbara	38.	Greg Wolford
9.	Dawn D	24.	Morgan Dragonwillow	39.	mindlovemisery
10.	Carol Campbell	25.	Tracesofthesoul (2)	40.	Tortured Cyclone
11.	TwoPaisePoems	26.	Diary of a Writerbee	41.	S. Elle Cameron
12.	Esther Spurrill Jones	27.	de jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	42.	jazzytower
13.	Payal Agarwal	28.	Camille Wylde	43.	Sigrid Saradunn
14.	abbey boyle blount fallin	29.	Candy
15.	Jingle Nozelar	30.	Cressida

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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Oh Dear!

Hello again from your favorite structure anarchist! I yet again bring you something with form! Never fear, this one has nothing to do with counting!

Actually this is a form that I kinda made up one day for a poetry class in college, I call it the "Dear," form.

Once upon a time a friend and I were joking about our ex boyfriends at the beginning of poetry class and coming forth from that was what we wrote that day!

How to do it? 

Each line of the poem starts with "Dear (name)"
You get one line to say something to an ex or some significant love, example I did my ex boyfriend, my high school crushes, my (then) current boyfriend, my childhood love, etc. Anyways my list ended up to be about 17 names long.
For each name, you get one sentence plus one word (optional) Example: "Dear Steve, at least you made good coffee. Sorry."

Don't have a long enough list? You can go with a list like your bridesmaids, your best friends in college, deceased pets, etc. I've always liked doing this periodically with the same list to see if my feelings have changed towards any of the memories I have of these people. It's a nice reflective exercise I feel, personally I think it pairs well with a glass of wine.

Word prompts: 
Cappuccino
Crashing
Sorry

Sentence prompt: 
The coffee was cold...
Like a sleepy cat...
Do you believe...

Photo of the day:

Photo courtesy of Beverly Tan Photography 

Whatcha think? Write something? Don't forget to tweet/instagram me at @beverlytanfilm #octpowrimo and/or comment below!

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1.	Bastet	17.	malia lawrence page	33.	Bullish
2.	Illsa from Team Netherworld	18.	tracesofthesoul	34.	Mark Jones
3.	Cressida	19.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	35.	jazzytower
4.	Sunita Prasad	20.	vivienne blake	36.	Candy
5.	Deepti Agrawal Day 18	21.	TwoPaisePoems	37.	Aishah
6.	Deepti Agrawal	22.	Esther Spurrill Jones	38.	Cara Michaels
7.	Tortured Cyclone	23.	Diary of a Writerbee	39.	Kay Winter
8.	Payal Agarwal	24.	barbara	40.	Camille Wylde
9.	Al the Author	25.	Amrita Paul	41.	Nithya Venkat
10.	Fida Islaih	26.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet	42.	Jennifer Cunningham
11.	Dawn D	27.	TwoPaisePoems	43.	mindlovemisery
12.	Barbara_y	28.	the lull after shilyot	44.	Steph
13.	Nancy Beebe Goolsby Perry	29.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	45.	Ameena k.g
14.	Carol Campbell	30.	Here, There be a Writer	46.	S. Elle Cameron
15.	Misky	31.	Grace Black	47.	Sigrid Saradunn
16.	Ameena k.g	32.	Greg Wolford

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Things aren't always what they seem | Poetry Prompt 18

It's OctPoWriMo Day 18! How's your writing going this month? I hope you've written some new things and are enjoying reading all this poetry this month. Today's prompt we're going to add a little mystery to our lives. Look around you, whether it's a physical object or people in general in your life. Chose something or someone and give them a double life. Ex: I just book a graphic novel where the woman is a turn of the century housewife during the day, but at night she's an assassin. Maybe your tomato has the secret life of an apple. Never know what's happening in the crisper when the drawer is closed. Get creative and have fun with it.

Remember the prompt is just a suggestion!

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1.	TwoPaisePoems	16.	Amrita Paul	31.	Mark Jones
2.	Bastet	17.	Beth Camp	32.	Janet
3.	Morella from Team Netherworld	18.	Candy	33.	Kay Winter
4.	Aishah	19.	Steph	34.	Greg Wolford
5.	Payal Agarwal	20.	de jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	35.	mindlovemisery
6.	scribblesmcgee	21.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	36.	Nithya Venkat
7.	Dawn D	22.	jazzytower	37.	Tracesofthesoul
8.	Sunita Prasad	23.	"Chivalry Is Dead" by Abbie Dragonblood	38.	Tortured Cyclone
9.	Cressida	24.	Camille Wylde	39.	Al the Author
10.	April Wells	25.	barbara	40.	S. Elle Cameron
11.	Misky	26.	Diary of a Writerbee	41.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
12.	Carol Campbell	27.	Esther Spurrill Jones	42.	Grace Black
13.	Ameena	28.	Cara Michaels	43.	Sigrid Saradunn
14.	shilyot the lull after	29.	Connie Mae Inglis
15.	Here, There be a Writer	30.	Jennifer Cunningham

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Tamara Woods was raised (fairly happily) in West Virginia where she began penning poems after a boy broke her heart. She shares poetry, short stories and writer interviews on her blog, PenPaperPad. Her writing has been featured in Mamalode, In the Powder Room, and many others. She is the editor for The Reverie Journal, which will be releasing its first poetry collection early October. She also hosts #writestuff TweetChat where writers talk about writing every Tuesday at 9 pm EST. She is a hillbilly hermit living in Honolulu with her Mathmagician.

Poetry Prompt 17 - Are You Dancing?

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.” ― Rumi

Photo by Morgan Dragonwillow

Poetry Prompt:

What stage are you at in the above quote? Are you dancing? Write for ten minutes asking yourself the previous questions. 

Word Prompts:

Free

Middle

Bandage

Poetry Type: Cascade

I created a poem for this poetry type for the last A to Z challenge. I enjoyed playing with it and I hope you do as well.

The shackles binding her in place fell to the ground.

She discovered a freedom never felt before.

Smiling into the sun, she laughed and walked away.

She didn’t know her prison was her own making.

She longingly looked out over the horizon.

The Shackles binding her in place fell to the ground.

The door opened and suddenly she had choices.

Stepping out the breeze gently stroked her hair and face.

She discovered a freedom never felt before.

Now was her chance to be who she was meant to be.

She didn’t hesitate or think to look backward.

Smiling into the sun, she laughed and walked away.

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1.	Bastet	16.	Abbie's Adventure Diaries	31.	Jennifer Cunningham
2.	Thalia from Team Netherworld	17.	Dawn D	32.	Aishah
3.	Cressida	18.	De Jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	33.	Mark Jones
4.	Tournesol @Tracesofthesoul	19.	Helen Espinosa	34.	April Wells
5.	vivienne blake	20.	S. Elle Cameron	35.	Nithya Venkat
6.	Deepti Agrawal	21.	jazzytower	36.	shilyot
7.	Amrita Paul	22.	Here, There be a Writer	37.	Camille Wylde
8.	Misky	23.	barbara	38.	Cara Michaels
9.	Steph	24.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	39.	Pat
10.	Sunita Prasad	25.	Greg Wolford	40.	Tortured Cyclone
11.	Candy	26.	pat mather brown	41.	Al the Author
12.	Carol Campbell	27.	Esther Spurrill Jones	42.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
13.	Connie Mae Inglis	28.	Beth Camp	43.	mindlovemisery
14.	Payal Agarwal	29.	Kay Winter	44.	Sigrid Saradunn
15.	Grace Black	30.	TwoPaisePoems

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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Paradelle

I'm all about structure this week, weirdddd. Anyways, paradelles are some of my favorites, it's a really nice challenge! They were invented to be a parody (hence the name) to villanelles by US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. There, that's your history lesson for the day!

For all the structure lovers in the house, you're going to LOVE this! 

You've got four stanzas of six lines each. I would totally try to explain but Shadowpoetry.com does it a lot more concisely than I do: 

The Paradell Structure

First Three Stanzas:

The first two lines as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas must be the same (repeat). Where it begins to get difficult and become more of a poetic puzzle is when reaching fifth and sixth lines. These lines must contain all the words from the preceding four lines within the stanza using them only once to form completely new lines.

Last Stanza:

For the most difficult piece of this poetic puzzle, the final stanza of the paradelle does not repeat like the preceding stanzas, rather the final six lines must contain every word from the first three stanzas, and only those words, again using them only once to form completely new lines.

The Design is simple:

Stanza 1: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4  
Stanza 2: 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8
Stanza 3: 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12
Stanza 4: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 

Word prompts: 

Parallel

Dimension 

Shipwreck 

Delicious 

Sentence prompts: 

O' stormy sea...

Sounding with a crunch...

In her shadow... 

Photo of the day: 

Photo courtesy of Beverly Tan Photography 

So how about that? Fun sounding huh? Now for those of you more like me (the ones who tend to be anti-formalism) remember this prompt is just a suggestion and I promise to not be offended when you go off prompt. Heck, I might be a hypocrite and go off prompt because I'm super excited about Monday's prompt. 

Wrote something? Tell me about it by tweeting @beverlytanfilm #octpowrimo! Also comment below and don't forget the linky! 

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1.	Bastet	17.	Steph	33.	Vellur aka Nithya Venkat
2.	Tracesofthesoul	18.	TwoPaisePoems	34.	Abbie's Adventure Diaries
3.	Wanda from Team Netherworld	19.	Esther Spurrill Jones	35.	Shan Jeniah Burton
4.	Deepti Agrawal	20.	jazzytower	36.	Greg Wolford
5.	Bastet (2)	21.	Al the Author	37.	Mark Jones
6.	the lull after. shilyot	22.	Aishah	38.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
7.	Payal Agarwal	23.	Here, There be a Writer	39.	Kay Winter
8.	April Wells	24.	Candy	40.	Anna Stewart
9.	Cressida	25.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	41.	Jennifer Cunningham
10.	AmritaPaul	26.	Camille Wylde	42.	Sunita Prasad
11.	Misky	27.	vivienne blake	43.	S. Elle Cameron
12.	Beth Camp	28.	Dawn D	44.	mindlovemisery
13.	Janet	29.	Cara Michaels	45.	Misky's Paradell
14.	Carol Campbell	30.	Grace Black	46.	Pat
15.	barbara	31.	De Jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	47.	Tortured Cyclone
16.	Morgan Dragonwillow	32.	stephan carl victor peter hudson	48.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Conquer the World | Day 15

This is the 15th day of OctPoWriMo! How are you doing? Have you been hitting each day with a poem or joining us upon occasion? Either way, we're glad you came.

Imagine if today was the day where you could do anything you wanted. All foods had no calories. You could speed without getting pulled over. You could climb onto a plane and fly without having a ticket. What would you do? What is your wildest dream for you one day? Tell us all about it!

Remember the prompt is only a suggestion!

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Bastet	19.	Pegasus	37.	Camille Wylde
2.	Cressida	20.	Beth Camp	38.	Greg Wolford
3.	jazzytower	21.	vivienne blake	39.	Grace Black
4.	Fae from Team Netherworld	22.	Carol Campbell	40.	Cara Michaels
5.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	23.	barbara	41.	Candy
6.	Tournesol @ Tracesofthesouol	24.	Here, There be a Writer	42.	Kay Winter
7.	Deepti Agrawal	25.	TwoPaisePoems	43.	Jennifer Cunningham
8.	the lull after. shilyot	26.	Mark Jones	44.	Anna Stewart
9.	ivy/zoe	27.	Aishah (Day 11)	45.	Misky
10.	Bohemian NERD	28.	Aishah Day 12	46.	Connie Mae Inglis
11.	Payal Agarwal	29.	Aishah Day 13	47.	stephan carl victor peter hudson
12.	Dawn D	30.	Aishah Day 14	48.	piper and rufun
13.	Steph	31.	The Enchantress	49.	Tortured Cyclone
14.	Sunita Prasad	32.	Aishah Today's Prompt...FINALLY	50.	mindlovemisery
15.	AmritaPaul	33.	De Jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	51.	S. Elle Cameron
16.	Al the Author	34.	Abbie'sAdventureDiaries "If The Cage Were To Open"	52.	Pat
17.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet	35.	Diary of a Writerbee	53.	Sigrid Saradunn
18.	Nithya Venkat	36.	Esther Spurrill Jones

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Tamara Woods was raised (fairly happily) in West Virginia where she began penning poems after a boy broke her heart. She shares poetry, short stories and writer interviews on her blog, PenPaperPad. Her writing has been featured in Mamalode, In the Powder Room, and many others. She is the editor for The Reverie Journal, which will be releasing its first poetry collection early October. She also hosts #writestuff TweetChat where writers talk about writing every Tuesday at 9 pm EST. She is a hillbilly hermit living in Honolulu with her Mathmagician.

Poetry Prompt 14 - Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

“Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks.” ― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Photo by Larisa Koshkina at PublicDomainPictures.net

Most of the time I don't have any clue what prompt I'm going to use. Today I started reviewing the photos on PublicDomainPictures.net and one thing led to another until I saw this photo and immediately knew what wanted to be here for the prompt. I love it when inspiration kicks in!

Poetry Prompt:

What is on the bridge between yesterday and tomorrow? Write for ten minutes focusing on that question.

Word Prompts:

Connections

burning bridges

Between

Sentence Starters:

The difference between then and now...

I stood on the bridge...

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1.	Bastet	18.	Carol Campbell	35.	Vellur aka Nithya Venkat
2.	Dolly from Team Netherworld	19.	jazzytower	36.	Beth Camp
3.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	20.	barbara	37.	Diary of a Writerbee
4.	Cressida	21.	Misky	38.	Jennifer Cunningham
5.	the lull before. shilyot	22.	Greg Wolford	39.	Kay Winter
6.	Deepti Agrawal	23.	De Jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	40.	Tracesofthesoul
7.	April Wells	24.	TwoPaisePoems	41.	Anna Stewart
8.	Sherri	25.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet	42.	Mark Jones
9.	Bohemian NERD	26.	The Enchantress	43.	Aishah
10.	Sunita Prasad	27.	jazzytower	44.	Cara Michaels
11.	AmritaPaul	28.	Candy	45.	S. Elle Cameron
12.	Payal Agarwal	29.	Grace Black	46.	mindlovemisery
13.	Al the Author	30.	Esther Spurrill Jones	47.	Tortured Cyclone
14.	Fida Islaih	31.	Camille Wylde	48.	Pat
15.	Janet	32.	Greg Wolford (#2)	49.	Sigrid Saradunn
16.	ivy/zoe	33.	Dawn D
17.	Steph	34.	Here, There be a Writer

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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Poetry Prompt 13 - Risky Business

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” 
― T.S. Eliot

Photo by Alex Grichenko from PublicDomainPhotos.net 

I wanted to do something light and fun for today's prompt but it just wouldn't coalesce. Hope your week is going well and the words spring from your fingers.

Poetry Prompt:

What risk are you willing to take with your writing? Write for ten minutes exploring that question and see where it leads you. 

Word Prompts:

Exposed

Honesty

Chance

Sentence Starters:

If I'm honest with myself...

Engaging all of my senses...

Possible Poetry Type to explore - I wrote a Blitz poem early on in this journey and now let's see who would like to try writing a Blitz poem from Shadowpoetry.com 

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Bastet	16.	Carol Campbell	31.	de jackson (WhimsyGizmo)
2.	Faycin A Croud	17.	Jeanne Beryl Henneberry	32.	Diary of a Writerbee
3.	Deepti Agrawal	18.	SourgirlOhio	33.	jazzytower
4.	Tracesofthesoul	19.	Connie Mae Inglis	34.	Kay Winter
5.	Cressida	20.	shilyot	35.	Camille Wylde
6.	vivienne blake	21.	Dawn D	36.	Anna Stewart
7.	Bohemian NERD	22.	TwoPaisePoems	37.	Mark Jones
8.	Vellur aka Nithya Venkat	23.	The Enchantress	38.	April Wells
9.	ivy/zoe	24.	Jennifer Cunningham	39.	Tortured Cyclone
10.	Sunita Prasad	25.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	40.	mindlovemisery
11.	Payal Agarwal	26.	Esther Spurrill Jones	41.	Aishah
12.	AmritaPaul	27.	Al the Author	42.	Cara Michaels
13.	Janet	28.	Greg Wolford	43.	S. Elle Cameron
14.	Steph	29.	barbara	44.	Pat
15.	Grace Black	30.	Here, There be a Writer	45.	Sigrid Saradunn

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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A, B, C, easy as 1, 2, 3

Photo from PublicDomainPictures.net

I bet you're singing that Jackson 5 song in your head now, maybe even out loud.
Today I thought of an interesting notion for a prompt, yet a very simple one.

Prompt of the day:
Write a poem that is 26 lines. Each line begins with a different letter of the alphabet. A, B, C, etc.

I guess you're wondering why this lover of abstract prompts and wild ideas wants something with actual parameters for once. I guess I found myself spinning into the unknown and needed some grounding. I think sometimes as artists and wordsmiths, we need to give ourselves something with structure.

Need some help finding words? Here's a list of 100 beautiful words.

Write something? Have something to share? Tell us all about it in the comments and tweet me at @beverlytanfilm #octpowrimo 

Happy writing! 

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Bastet	20.	Steph	39.	Kay Winter
2.	Tracesofthesoul	21.	Esther Spurrill Jones	40.	Shan Jeniah Burton
3.	Deepti Agrawal	22.	shilyot the lull after	41.	Anna Stewart
4.	Morgan Dragonwillow	23.	Sunita Prasad	42.	Mark Jones
5.	Wanda from Team Netherworld	24.	barbara	43.	Tortured Cyclone
6.	Tamara @ PenPaperPad	25.	Ameena K.g	44.	Elena Owen
7.	Dawn D	26.	SourgirlOhio	45.	Pat
8.	AmritaPaul	27.	Jennifer Cunningham	46.	Olga
9.	Bohemian NERD	28.	derelict june	47.	Beth Camp
10.	Cressida	29.	Janet	48.	jazzytower
11.	Misky	30.	Candy	49.	S. Elle Cameron
12.	ivy/zoe	31.	Camille Wylde	50.	mindlovemisery
13.	Fida Islaih	32.	Diary of a Writerbee	51.	Aishah
14.	Carol Campbell	33.	Here, There be a Writer	52.	Cara Michaels
15.	Al the Author	34.	stephanie	53.	Sigrid Saradunn
16.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	35.	Grace Black	54.	Payal Agarwal
17.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet	36.	Greg Wolford	55.	Cobalt
18.	TwoPaisePoems' ABC!	37.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)
19.	Pegasus (yesterday's prompt)	38.	Helen Espinosa

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Sing Out Your Success | Poetry Prompt 11

This week has been kind of amazing for me. My friend Laura and I run The Reverie Journal, which is an online poetry zine where we discuss all things poetry. October marks our 1st year anniversary.  On Friday, we launched our first compilation featuring poets from around the world. I'm kind of in awe. This year has been filled with a lot of setbacks, changes, and the unpredictable nature that is life. I'm proud that we've come this far and surprised that it worked out so beautifully.

This brings us to today's prompt.

Think of a time where you surprised yourself. You set out to do something and you surprised yourself. You weren't even sure if the goal was feasible. Maybe it was something you hadn't done before. Maybe you did it against the advice of family and friends. Perhaps you had to war against your inner doubts to make it happen. But you did it anyway and you did it your way.

Tell us your success story.

Remember the prompts are just a suggestion!

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Bastet	15.	Dawn D	29.	Kay Winter
2.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	16.	Steph	30.	S. Elle Cameron
3.	Spectra from Team Netherworld	17.	Sunita Prasad	31.	Diary of a Writerbee
4.	Tracesofthesoul	18.	Greg Wolford	32.	Tortured Cyclone
5.	Amrita Paul	19.	barbara	33.	Anna Stewart
6.	Bastet 2	20.	Esther Spurrill Jones	34.	de jackson (WhimsyGizmo)
7.	TwoPaisePoems	21.	Mark Jones	35.	Camille Wylde
8.	Cressida	22.	Jennifer Cunningham	36.	mindlovemisery
9.	Nithya Venkat	23.	scribblesmcgee	37.	Payal Agarwal
10.	Bohemian NERD	24.	Grace Black	38.	Pat
11.	Al the Author	25.	Beth Camp	39.	Cara Michaels
12.	April Wells	26.	Connie Mae Inglis	40.	Aishah
13.	Carol Campbell	27.	Here, There be a Writer	41.	Sigrid Saradunn
14.	jazzytower	28.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet	42.	Cobalt

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Tamara Woods was raised (fairly happily) in West Virginia where she began penning poems after a boy broke her heart. She shares poetry, short stories and writer interviews on her blog, PenPaperPad. Her writing has been featured in Mamalode, In the Powder Room, and many others. She is the editor for The Reverie Journal, which will be releasing it's first poetry collection early October. She also hosts #writestuff TweetChat where writers talk about writing every Tuesday at 9 pm EST. She is a hillbilly hermit living in Honolulu with her Mathmagician.

Poetry Prompt 10 - Wild Writing

How are things going? Are you writing poetry everyday, every other day, are you stuck? Remember wherever you are it is right and perfect. Be kind to yourself, take a bubble bath, go for a walk, or as I talk about below, dance.

Image by Morgan Dragonwillow

Wild Writing: Wild writing comes from the wild mind. For me it is accessing that part of myself that is primal, that part of myself that doesn’t listen to societal conventions. Dancing takes me to this place like nothing else can. It takes me out of my body and into that space of imagination, possibilities, and no thought. I know you’re probably wondering how you can write if you are in a place of no thought. Well, that is the place where your ego steps out of the way and deep connection happens. It is a place where your writing can fall onto the page almost of its own volition. Try it for yourself, put on some music and dance into and out of your own way and let loose your wild writing.

Writing Prompt:

If you already have music that you want to dance to and access your wild writing, great! If not I am sharing one of my favorites that help me get to that place. Listen to the music, dance, and get in touch with your wild self. When you feel ready, come to the page and let it pour out.

Word Prompt:

Unknown
Uninhibited
Untamed Heart

Sentence Starter:

Blood rushes through my veins...
As I dance...

Hope you are having fun on this OctPoWriMo Journey and your muse is visiting you often!

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Aishah (yesterday's prompt)	17.	SourgirlOhio	33.	Camille Wylde
2.	Bastet	18.	TwoPaisePoems	34.	Kay Winter
3.	Mystique from Team Netherworld	19.	jazzytower	35.	Mark Jones
4.	Deepti Agrawal	20.	Helen Espinosa	36.	Anna Stewart
5.	April Wells	21.	Tournesol @ Tracesofthesoul	37.	Misky
6.	The Eclectic Poet	22.	Here, There be a Writer	38.	Sunita Prasad
7.	Cressida	23.	Greg Wolford	39.	Connie Mae Inglis
8.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	24.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet	40.	S. Elle Cameron
9.	Carol Campbell	25.	Aishah- Chasing Life	41.	Payal Agarwal
10.	Amrita Paul	26.	barbara	42.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)
11.	Dawn D	27.	Beth Camp	43.	shilyot
12.	Abbie's Adventure Diaries	28.	DJA	44.	Pat
13.	Nithya Venkat	29.	Candy	45.	Cara Michaels
14.	Esther Spurrill Jones	30.	Steph	46.	Sigrid Saradunn
15.	Jennifer Cunningham	31.	Tortured Cyclone	47.	Cobalt
16.	Al the Author	32.	Grace Black

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Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, foodie, urban gardener, and recovering perfectionist, that (mostly) doesn't let her fears get in the way of her passion for writing and creating. She is team leader at @StoryDam, creatrix of  #OctPoWriMo You can find her Playing with Words on her blog. She lives in Marietta, Ga. with her loving and patient partner, their dog that thinks she's a princess, and the cat that reminds her that she isn't.

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Firepower!

Maybe it's because I feng shiu'ed my office last week but I'm thinking about the elements today. Water, fire, air, earth, metal, ice, etc. Elements have so much symbolism in them, and the best part is the duality you can find with them. Think about the movie Frozen, the ice made beautiful snowflakes but it also almost killed people.

My favorite has always been fire, something that keeps you warm on cold winter nights but also firestorms, burning beautiful fires. 

Today I'm suggesting you think about the elements, how they affect you and about the duality and contrast in them. 

Here's a few photos to get you started. 

Top image courtesy of the wonderful Andrew Dodson, model Beverly Tan. See his work at https://www.facebook.com/adodsonphoto

All other images copyright Beverly Tan 

See more at Facebook.com/beverlytanphotography or viewbug.com/member/bevtan

Word Prompts: 
Windstorm 

Flickering

Earthy

Balance 
Sentence prompts: 
In a spark... 

When it rains... 

Calming like the sound of... 

Wrote something? Share your poem with us by linking it in the comments and Tweet @beverlytanfilm and/or #octpowrimo so I see it!

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	19.	The Enchantress	37.	Kay Winter
2.	Bastet	20.	jazzytower	38.	Tortured Cyclone
3.	Adam from Team Netherworld	21.	DJA	39.	Aishah (REWRITE)
4.	vivienne blake	22.	Carol Campbell	40.	Scribblesmcgee
5.	Deepti Agrawal	23.	Greg Wolford	41.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
6.	April Wells	24.	Beth Camp	42.	Jennifer Cunningham
7.	Ivy/zoe	25.	Grace Black	43.	Anna Stewart
8.	Cressida	26.	jazzytower	44.	Mark Jones
9.	The Eclectic Poet	27.	TwoPaisePoems	45.	Sunita Prasad
10.	Here, There be a Writer	28.	Esther Spurrill Jones	46.	Tournesol @Tracesofthesoul
11.	Bohemian NERD	29.	S. Elle Cameron	47.	Yves
12.	AmritaPaul	30.	Pegasus	48.	Payal Agarwal
13.	Janet	31.	Diary of a Writerbee	49.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)
14.	Al the Author	32.	Dawn D	50.	Pat
15.	Steph	33.	Camille Wylde	51.	poeticfootprints
16.	Nithya Venkat	34.	barbara	52.	Wendles
17.	Fida Islaih	35.	Morgan Dragonwillow	53.	Cobalt
18.	Connie Mae Inglis	36.	Cara Michaels

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