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Cold and Hot
For your writing this week, concentrate on the details of what it feels like to be very hot or very cold (in whatever sense you want to take it). Make us feel the way you or the subject of your poem feels. Are there sounds, smells, visual images that go with feeling hot or cold?
There are many ways to use these words and many ways we experience cold or hot besides the weather outside--like swimming in a northern sea, sweating over a stove or wearing too many or too few clothes. The way one experiences hot and cold may change over time and with circumstance.
And of course both hot and cold can also be metaphorical or symbolic.
I look forward to reading about how you experience these feelings that are with us all. Post your efforts on your blog and link with Mr. Linky below.
Peggy Goetz
Blogging at: On a Day Like Today
When I was writing The Christmas Village, I had to come up with a lot of different ways to describe winter in Vermont. I'd write "it was as cold as" and then finish the sentence as many ways as I could. I came up with some fun things that way.
ReplyDeleteoooh! i love this prompt, Peggy! and the photograph is gorgeous!
ReplyDeletedani ♥
My poem is posted, and I think I have an audio link there, too.
ReplyDeleteHere is my post in response to my own prompt! Just returned in time to participate here again from a trip to Cold--Antarctica!! I look forward to seeing what you all come up with! I will be checking in often!!
ReplyDeleteI guess I will just say it here. I will respond to NEW poetry written in response to this prompt, not poetry that was written months ago...and / or people who have specifically lined to Poetry Jam....and/or have responded to the poem I shared.
ReplyDeleteGautami, have you linked Poetry Jam? I didn't see it.
ReplyDeleteThe best way to heat up a trip to the hospital is with warm memories of times past
ReplyDeleteNice prompt...I hope you don't mind Mary but I combined prompts in my posts ~
ReplyDeleteooooh! i'ma gonna be in trouble with you, Mary! {smile} i think i used about 10 prompts BUT it is a new poem and TWO of the verses are directly inspired by Peggy's wonderful prompt. please forgive me. ♥ and thank you, Peggy ~ your prompt and a song got my muse working for the first time in quite a while. i'll be back to visit links tomorrow.
ReplyDeletedani ♥
I had some fun with this prompt, put up a limerick that I think many of us might relate to :)
ReplyDeleteRae Ann Hoehn, when I click on your link I get a message that I don't have access to your blog; thus there is no way I can comment.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed this- thanks, Ella!
ReplyDeleteOops, Laurie. Ella isn't involved in this particular site. But I am glad you enjoyed the prompt!
ReplyDeleteRae Ann, I also cannot access your blog with the link you posted. But everyone else I really enjoyed the things you have linked here. So much inspiration out there!!
ReplyDeleteYeah i could not get to rae either...mine will be up in the morning...
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed reading the links and contributing my first poem to Poetry Jam,
ReplyDeleteHeres to many more!
Trying to jump back in.
ReplyDeleteOk I tried again. Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
ReplyDeleteLate, late but I did it! I'll swing by tomorrow morning to read the other entries!
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