Poem prompt for you

I wrote a poem about a friend I miss and regret saying goodbye to, although it was necessary unfortunately, it is something that will always haunt me to this day and I won’t change what I did despite the regrets.

I haven’t spoken to this friend for nearly two years

The poem I wrote was called “The Raven’s Wolf sister”.

The raven’s wolf sister

It was written with a certain principle in mind, look below for the method in which I wrote this poem and became inspired to do it;

If you want to write a similar poem, read on.

The principles I used below are what I saw being used in Edward Thomas’s poem “Celandine”;

Something that saddened you about a specific person who is no longer in your life

Until something gave you a fond memory of them

Something alive which is like them or their personality?

Some shadow aspect about either you towards this person or that person themselves

The ghost of whatever comes to mind that describes how you feel about this person

A thought about this person

What did they find? – describe something they learned whilst with you or found, an item, a memory, a lesson

What were they like? What were their personalities like?

Why were they beautiful?  Describe why you found them beautiful and make artistic or natural comparisons

What did the world see in this person?  Say it how you saw it, good or bad!

When they laughed what did it remind you of?

How real is this memory?

What memory makes you sad about them, something different to the previous answer?

How would you say they left you?  Your thoughts, your feelings, their actual way of leaving you, it can be realistic or fantastically dramatized in an abstract form

What feelings came about when they did? How did you feel?  Abstract or realist will do. 

Weekly Prompt 5

This week’s writing prompts are – A blacksmith – An Attic – Princess – Bus – A death

Weekly Prompt 3

This week’s prompts are – Blacksmith – Phoenix – City – An Illness – Snow 

Interesting prompts giving me a lot of ideas for a large story, possibly another novel, not something I really need at the moment considering the back log of ideas I have but there you go!

Weekly Prompt 1

Because daily prompts were getting a bit much for both me and my readers, I have decided to only do a once a week prompt.  It is still based on the same idea; I give you five words or themes and you can either use your own imagination to make something out of it or you can go and use the prompts to look at pictures at websites, such as DeviantArt.com or Pinterest to help spur on ideas of your own.

The new weekly prompts will now start on Wednesdays and today is the first. 

This week’s prompts are – Hunting – A Prisoner – Jury Duties – A Businessman – Under the Stairs

Strange how these prompts have blended well together, a prisoner and jury duties, that weirdly matches and these are truly randomly generated words!  Especially bizarre is the fact that another word in this prompt is “Hunting” so obviously someone is hunting an escaped prisoner?  Or something along those lines or maybe someone is going to be imprisoned due to illegal hunting (poaching)?  There is so much to think about and play with on these prompts because again you can think about fraudulent activities from the businessman who may go to jail and escape and therefore is hunted?  A bounty hunter chases down a wanted criminal and imprisons him as that is the business of a bounty hunter isn’t it?  Maybe as a way to incarcerate him for the police to pick him up the bounty hunter keeps him locked in a makeshift prison under the stairs of his home?  Who knows?

This is an exciting prompt I must say.

This is going to be really fun to do; I hope you do have fun with it!

Prompt result 1

Today’s prompts were Mermaid – lightning – apple, blue and bird. 

For me the searches I had found prompted these following ideas.

1. An electric eel mermaid from the deepest depths of the ocean is trying to prove to the other mermaids who live up higher than she does that because she comes from the darkest depths that she is not evil and dark by nature. Unfortunately she loses her temper trying to make the others see a different side to her that she accidentally electrocutes a prominent figure in the other mermaids’ society and she swims away, higher and higher until she gets to the surface of the ocean, where she befriends a blue sea bird. 
2. A woman is trying to organise a mermaid theme birthday party for her daughter’s eighth birthday. Many trials and plenty of errors meant that it was a struggle for her to find mermaid theme food for her daughter, but she stumbles across a recipe for blue chocolate apples in edible glitter stuffed into an ice-cream cone and that saves the day! 
3. A bird has magical powers of throwing out lightning from his beak befriends a beached and sick mermaid and he brings her apples to eat from the island she is beached on.

Now all of them are very good ideas for stories, whether they are flash fictions, short stories or full novels who knows what will happen with those story-lines?  I am not claiming these story-lines, I am merely demonstrating how easy it is to play with ideas with a few keyword prompts and how you can train your brain to do this in everything you experience day to day.