Poetry Prompts Day 9 - OctPoWriMo 2016

Greetings, poets! How's OctPoWriMo going for you? I know Morgan and I are a bit overwhelmed at the responses this year. Personally, I've been so overwhelmed in my day to day life, that I've barely had time to do any reading or commenting on your efforts. I'm going to try to get to some of them, but please know that your participation is appreciated and what I have found time to read has been incredible. Keep the wonderful poems coming! Now on to one of my FAVORITE words, loaded with imagery. (Again, all images are from PublicDomainPictures.)

Photo by Petr Kratochvil

Photo by Paul Brennan

Photo by Jean Beaufort

Photo by Maliz Ong

Photo by Tim Emerich

Day 9 Prompt - SPIRAL

I love that you can find spirals from the tiniest places (our DNA) to massive expanses (the Milky Way) and everywhere in between. Free write about spiraling and see where you go - do you spiral up or down? Find where this word takes you and go from there.

Word Prompts:

spiral

helix

winding

corkscrew

coiling

Suggested Poetic Form: Cascade (which is a bit of a spiraling form!)

Music For Your Muse: Space Dog by Tori Amos

Remember, our prompts are only suggestions, where you find inspiration for your poetry is up to you.

During OctPoWriMo, if you want to make sure that we know you have written something new, comment in that day's post with your link to your blog and/or share your link on Twitter with the hashtag, #OctPoWriMo.

If you would like to leave an active link in the comments:

<a href = "your link">your title</a>

You have to put the link to your post (same link you would put in the comment section) in the, "your link" space within the quotations and the title to your post in the, your title, space.

Our link would look like this:

<a href="https://poetsonthepage.blogspot.com/">OctPoWriMo</a>

Once you hit publish on your comment it would look like this (only with the name of your post):

OctPoWriMo

I hope that helps. You don't have to do this, it is only if you would like to make your link an active link.

Remember to visit two or more OctPoWriMo participants and leave encouraging and supportive words along the way.