Poetry Prompt 3 - Showing Up

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"Showing up is half the battle." I've heard this time and again through out my life, sometimes it annoyed me and sometimes I knew it was right because you have to show up to the page to be able to get the words written for your poetry.

There is a lot of chaos in my life right now and I tend to not even want to show up at the page. I'm sure you have days such as these as well, days that you feel so drained of energy that you don't think you have even one word you can write down.

Poetry Prompt:

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Free write for ten minutes about what drains you, what depletes your energy and makes you want to stay away from the page and what you do to change or transform it to help you get your words written. After you are finished, choose some or all of it and create a shape poem, that is when you arrange the words to create a shape and you can find samples on Shadow Poetry. The shape can be anything that you want it to be.

Word Prompts:

Exhaust
Consume
Flow

Sentence Starters: 

When I begin to feel...

As the water drains...

Remember our prompts are only suggestions to help light your words on fire.

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	25.	Lori Laird	49.	Beth Camp
2.	Plum	26.	Rod E. Kok	50.	Wendles
3.	The Real Cie	27.	Amrita paul	51.	Grace and Mystery
4.	Payal Agarwal	28.	Tortured Cyclone	52.	Jennifer Cunningham
5.	ivy/zoe	29.	Pegasus	53.	Nithya Venkat
6.	Dawn D	30.	Connie Mae Inglis	54.	Mark Jones
7.	Misky	31.	Steph	55.	Kay Winter
8.	Janet	32.	Diary of a Writerbee	56.	Shan Jeniah Burton
9.	The Eclectic Poet	33.	jazzytower	57.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
10.	b_young	34.	Deborah	58.	Sunita Prasad
11.	Cressida	35.	Morgan Dragonwillow	59.	Anna Stewart
12.	Candy	36.	Lisa @ The Meaning of Me	60.	shilyot
13.	Lance	37.	Pat	61.	Scribblesmcgee
14.	SourgirlOhio	38.	Helen Espinosa	62.	De Jackson (WhimsyGizmo)
15.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	39.	stephanie	63.	Some Writing From the Soul (Prompt not up yet)
16.	Carol Campbell	40.	Jenni Z	64.	mindlovemisery
17.	Bohemian NERD	41.	S. Elle Cameron	65.	Ameena k.g
18.	Esther Spurrill Jones	42.	Lindy™	66.	tracesofthesoul
19.	Aishah- Break the Cycle	43.	Camille Wylde	67.	Sigrid Saradunn
20.	Aishah (yesterday's prompt)	44.	barbara	68.	The Enchantress
21.	Grace Black	45.	Leslye "Lita V." Wilson	69.	Emily
22.	Al the Author	46.	Cara Michaels	70.	Cobalt
23.	TwoPaisePoems	47.	Here, There be a Writer
24.	Greg Wolford	48.	DJA

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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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