Cold and Hot

Photo by Peggy Goetz

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

sensual poetry

we all are familiar with the five basic human senses ~

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touch

hearing

sight

smell

taste

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did you know there are more senses which are scientifically accepted? { i did not.}

other senses include ~

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temperature

kinesthetic sense**

pain

balance

acceleration

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**{the kinesthetic sense provides the parietal cortex of the brain with information on the relative positions of the parts of the body at all times.}

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there are internal senses which involve numerous sensory receptors in internal organs, such as stretch receptors that are neurologically linked to the brain.

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and then there are extrasensory perceptions which are not universally agreed upon by the scientific community such as ~

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empathy

telepathy

clairvoyance

precognition

and more, including time perception

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some animals have senses which humans do not, and even some plants have senses!

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for this week's prompt, i have several sensual suggestions to choose from ~

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select one of the senses listed above and write a poem using that sense in any way you'd like.

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select several of the senses and incorporate them into your poem.

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select one or more of the senses attributed to plants or animals and write a poem about a human who has that ability.

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write a poem about life or a situation without senses {one or more or all of the five senses; or any of the additional senses.}

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invent your own sense and write a poem about it.

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of course, you could always write a "sensual" poem in the sexual sense

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use the image above as inspiration for your poem {the painting is called "The Five Senses" by Austrian artist, Hans Makart (1840-1884) and is in the public domain. go HERE for the downloadable image.

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if you would like more information about the senses, the above was obtained at wikipedia under sense (HERE) {including plant and animal senses}; and extrasensory perception (HERE).

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i hope that you will enjoy this prompt ~ i'm looking forward to your poems!

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thank you for participating. {please remember to provide a link back to this post within the body of your post.} Take your time ~ you have all week. Try to come up with something new and, after you have linked your poem using Mr. Linky, please visit some of the others who have linked theirs as well. We all enjoy visits. Please leave a comment for us, too. Happy jamming!

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dani ♥

my heart's love songs

Hi Poetry Jammers

Hi Poetry Jammers!  No, there is not a new  Poetry Jam prompt yet.  Take a look later Tuesday night; but if you want to write to this week's prompt, it is still open:  You Can Go Home Again.

One thing I have noticed is that some people will share their link and not visit any other people's sites. It seems these people want visits to their site, but aren't willing to visit others' sites.  This doesn't feel fair to me.  If we all did that, how would everyone feel?    I personally make it a point to TRY to visit everyone's links, at least those who have linked Poetry Jam so that people can find their way here. (If you don't link Poetry Jam, I probably won't comment.  I will be honest. If you have written for / linked Poetry Jam, promote us.)  And I personally appreciate visits to my site too.  Please, if you post a link on Poetry Jam, give Poetry Jam a shout out!

Also, our preference is for you to write a new poem for the Jam.  You have all week to do this. So please link a new poem that you write rather than something you have written in the past that you somehow believe will 'work.'  Let's make Poetry Jam a site for NEW writing.

Poetry Jam really is not such a large site that it would not be possible for people to comment on most, if not all, writings shared.  It makes people feel good to have visits.  We are all human and enjoy reactions to our words. 

There are also Blogger sites that some of us cannot comment on, as you have chosen the 'imbedded comments' option; and what we see when we click on your link is a big blank page.  It is a blogger issue; but if you are a Blogger and want comments choose another option.

Dani has a great prompt ready to go later Tuesday night.  There is still time to do my You Can Go Home Again prompt and to comment on the writings that others have shared if you haven't.

I truly believe in Poetry Jam, wish it to be a viable poetry site.  I hope that YOU do too.

You Can Go Home Again



(Picture from Google)

You Can Go Home Again

I have fond memories of my childhood home. In fact, I can still visualize it very clearly, see the rooms, the furniture, the pictures on the wall. In my mind, I can sit down on the couch, turn on the television and watch some of my old familiar childhood shows. (I won't tell you which ones, as that would date me.) And, yes, those are my dolls over there in the corner. I can smell the chocolate chip cookies Mother is baking in the kitchen. I can escape into my childhood bedroom, crawl into my bed, and, as we didn't have an air-conditioner when I was a child, I can hear the summer neighborhood noises coming in through my open window. I can visit the attic and the boxes I spent hours looking through. I can visualize my childhood basement, where I used to sometimes rollerskate, and I can see my dad's wonderful collection of tools. I loved it when he showed me how to 'make things.'




(Picture from Google)

 So what does this have to do with Poetry Jam?

Thomas Wolfe wrote the book You Can't Go Home Again. The title comes from the end of the novel when the protagonist George Webber realizes one can't go home to one's family, back home to one's childhood, back home to one's dreams of glory and fame, back home to places in the country, to old ways that at the time seemed everlasting but which kept changing.

The words "You can't go home again" have entered American speech to mean that you can't, after you have left your previous way of life, return. It is said that attempts to relive those youthful memories will always fail.

Well, what I would like you to do this week is to refute the words "You can't go home again." I would like you to return to your childhood home in some way and write from within your experience of your childhood home. Whether it be the house as a whole, a description of a room, something from within the room (favorite toy, kitchen table, etc.), an experience, or someone (even yourself) who lived there. Write from the perspective of either you as child or now as an adult.

One way or another, here at Poetry Jam write on the subject:  Going Home Again.  You have all week.  Take your time.  Try to come up with something new; and after you have linked your poem using Mr. Linky, please visit others who have linked theirs as well.  We all enjoy visits.  Happy jamming!  Please leave a comment for us too.

As an Aside: Some of us who have wanted to comment on links in Poetry Jam have had trouble navigating Blogger sites that seemed 'frozen.' Thus, we cannot post comments.  It has been those who have a comment area that is IMBEDDED rather than POP-UP or FULL-PAGE comment windows.  If you wish to fix this problem of people being able to comment on your blog, go into Settings / Comments and select 'pop-up-window' or 'full page.'  You may find you will get more visits.

Laugh in the Face of Everything

In this photograph taken in 1940, not a banner year in history, a Polish farming couple from Connecticut appears to be enjoying a joke, possibly made by the gentlemen about his pants, which he is hoisting.

It spoke to me, made me write this haiku:

In feast or famine
No matter what life hands us
Laughter lifts the heart

The challenge: Write what the photo says to you. Then post the photo (it’s in the public domain) and the poem on your blog.

Blogger comment problems: Apologies to all who received no comments this week owing to Blogger's issues. If your comments are imbedded in your posts, rather than a pop-up box, visitors may have been unable to leave word of their visit. But your poems were read and appreciated!

Photo credit:
Public Domain Photograph from the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection in the Library of Congress; Jack Delano, photographer.
Posted by Chris of Enchanted Oak.

Color Your Life

Colors are all around us and have long been used as metaphors and symbols. Teams have colors, schools and countries do too. Colors are associated with states of mind and mood. People can be green with envy, or feeling blue. Some people are passionate about particular colors. Do you know someone who has always loved green or blue or red? Color can be a moving thing and changes in color can be significant as well.  So choose a color and write!!

Color names are fun, too.  If you aren't inspired by ordinary colors, look Crayola Creativity Central™  for a list of past and present Crayola colors and pick a few at random. Or if you have one of those big boxes of Crayons around, open the lid and pick some hues that appeal to you. You find many color names in other sources so use what you like.

See where the names or the colors themselves take you poetically.  Let yourself go with these, think about how they make you feel, or people and places or events they make you think about.   Or just pick a color you like--or dislike--or one that give you a special feeling and write about it.

Perhaps you are one of those people who have unique relationships with colors, like the ability to hear colors. Tell us about this.

Post your colorful efforts below with Mr. Linky.

Peggy Goetz

Blogging at On a Day Like Today