The Thin Line

“Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”

― William Shakespeare


Love and hate.  Opposite (yet equally intense) emotions that drive us to act irrationally, cloud our thinking and render judgement null and void.   Throughout history love and hate wreaked havoc on cultures, ignited wars and also inspired great works of art and poetry.  They both make our hearts beat fiercely in our chest and our palms sweat.  Opposite but perhaps not so different in the end.

As the saying goes "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference"


I invite you to explore this thin line, to walk the edge of it with your words, to seek out the places that cut through the skin of expectations.   Perhaps consider what lurks on the other side.


Word & Topic Prompts:

Passion
Intensity
Red
Duality
Limits (pushing)
Consuming
Indifference


Please share the link to your poem (or post your poem) in the comments below.  We're looking forward to reading your work.

Jenny Astramowicz is a writer, poet and aspiring wellness coach.  She resides in San Francisco where she works at the local university and trains for endurance events.  Her long term dream is to live in France with her two cats.

Not all who wander are lost...

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Poetry Prompts - Picture's Worth A Thousand Words

I'm keeping this one short.

With everything that has been going on this last week here in the U.S., I thought today we could write a poem around the photo below, after all, they say a picture is worth a thousand words.

Photo courtesy of PublicDomainPictures.net
by Petr Kratochvil

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Morgan Dragonwillow, author of Wild Woman Waking & Dancing within Shadow, is a writing rebel poet who plays with words to inspire writers to get off the couch and #dancewritecreate. Creatrix of #OctPoWriMo #PoetsonthePage. Find more inspiration on her blog.

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Poetry Prompts - Inspiration to Tickle Your Muse

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Photo courtesy of PublicDomainPictures.net by Ian L.

It is a busy month and I hope you are taking time to enjoy your Spring or if you are in Australia or other parts of the world, your Fall. Are you participating in the A to Z challenge? If so, are you able to keep up with all of it, I've fallen behind but hoping to catch up. May your words fly to the page!

Word Prompts

To inspire
blowing the mind
weird phenomena



Peace,
Morgan Dragonwillow
Read, Dance, Write, Repeat.

Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, author, encourager, and facilitator of magical circles. She is team leader at @StoryDam, #OctPoWriMo and #PoetsonthePage You can find her Playing with Words and dancing on her blog.

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