I’ve been dabbling in my notebook with Inktober’s prompts this month. Inktober was a challenge first issued to visual artists to create drawings in response to particular words each day in October. Poets, always primed to see a writing possibility, grabbed the words and created a “Poemtober” challenge instead. I’ve played along for quite a few years now. It’s low stakes fun 🙂 I do take some liberties with the words, altering their form if that works better for me. In case you’re interested, here are the prompt words:
Oct. 6–golden
As summer exits
spruced-up trees applaud
toss confetti
into drifts
of autumn
gold
©Molly Hogan
October 9–bounce
Small Tragedy
A cage of balls,
bright buoyant spheres,
captive behind metal bars.
So eager to bounce
and play!
Forlorn and
locked away…
©Molly Hogan
This week’s Poetry Friday Roundup is hosted by Catherine Flynn who’s sharing a review of Irene Latham’s recent release and a wonderful original poem. Click to visit her blog, Reading to the Core.
Once again, most of the writing I’ve been doing lately has been quick responses to prompts. Among other things, I’ve been semi-participating in this month’s Poemtober. That means that I’ve tried to write to the word prompt each day, with wildly varying results. Here are my responses for the prompts “swing” and “husky.”
Nix the comfort zone 