Poetry Fishbowl Open!

[ysabetwordsmith]

The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED.  Thank you for your enthusiasm.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open!  Today's theme is "healing & growth."  I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Anthony Barrette left a backchannel prompt which inspired the free-verse poem "The Oncology of Contemporary Culture." It speaks to the nature of cancer and the breadth of its manifestation.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Check out "The Face of a Hero."

[book_worm5]

Well, there are all sorts of your worlds and characters which lend themselves to that prompt. The first to leap out at me when I saw it the other day were Damask and Danso and his family from Polychrome heroics, since healing and growth is pretty much where they are "at the moment" last I read. They could use some among themselves, and might well help provide it to someone else as well

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Your Frankenstein prompt combined with a Dreamwidth one to inspire the free-verse poem "The Soothing Sound." Excited by the new use of his legs, Adam promptly overdoes it and winds up sore and cranky. Csilla helps unwind the tight muscles.

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[janetmiles]

How is Nahum (Path of the Paladins) doing?

Sometimes, healing encapsulates the cause of injury (e.g., a splinter left in). Sometimes, it ejects the cause of injury (that same splinter, but it got infected).

Can someone grow past an emotional injury without healing it? Conversely, is it possible to heal an emotional injury without growing?

What if there were a way to graft bark onto a tree that has been ringed? Or that as a metaphor.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Your Paladins prompt inspired the free-verse poem "Our Most Vulnerable and Powerful Selves." It explores Nahum's first lesson from Rohalin about healing.

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[rhodielady_47]

"What if there were a way to graft bark onto a tree that has been ringed?"
Actually it's commonly done to save a valuable tree that's been girdled by hungry animals during the winter. It does take someone who's skilled at grafting to do it though.
:)

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

[whuffle]

It'd be interesting to see the world from the point of view of someone for whom, becoming a plant was their only way only way to be healed and in spite of having not wanted it originally, they've found the growth (spiritual, emotional, mental, etc) to be more satisfying than they'd expected.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

This turned out kind of dark and creepy in places, and kind of sweet and fluffy in other places. It's science fiction about human women merging with alien trees, set in The Blueshift Troupers. "The Woods Women" is written in free verse.

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