Whimsical Wednesday 27 November

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

As a poet I read a lot of poetry and some more on top. I also find one line taken out of context can lead to a whole new dimension of creativity. The idea of this challenge therefore is to create what comes to mind from lines of poetry.

This week’s lines of poetry are:

• And on the margins of the sea - Song of Quietness by Robinson Jeffers

• In the shadows of an autumn evening - Aimless Love by Billy Collins

• I shun the thought that lurks in all delight – Renouncement by Alice Meynell

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Whimsical Wednesday 20 November

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

As a poet I read a lot of poetry and some more on top. I also find one line taken out of context can lead to a whole new dimension of creativity. The idea of this challenge therefore is to create what comes to mind from lines of poetry.

This week’s lines of poetry are:

• There was a racket of dreaming and, though both were tired - The End by Victoria Redel

• When I think of the kiss - The Last Great Country Song by Paul Muldoon

• Not your head, just your eyes - Follow My Fingers with Your Eyes by Adam Possner

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Whimsical Wednesday 13 November

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

As a poet I read a lot of poetry and some more on top. I also find one line taken out of context can lead to a whole new dimension of creativity. The idea of this challenge therefore is to create what comes to mind from lines of poetry.

This week’s lines of poetry are:

• discussing the eternity of art in that Sardinian restaurant – Quite Frankly by Mark Halliday

• dark and mysterious like a song only time can sing – Ode to Lil' Kim in Florence by Barbara Hamby

• But the watchman over an abandoned mine – Found Poem by Howard Nemerov

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Whimsical Wednesday 6 November 2013

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

As a poet I read a lot of poetry and some more on top. I also find one line taken out of context can lead to a whole new dimension of creativity. The idea of this challenge therefore is to create what comes to mind from lines of poetry.

This week’s lines of poetry are:

Where a lover turned and smiled and did more than kiss - Tale of Two Cities by Mark Jarman

As if you could get the last sip of champagne - Borderline Mambo by Rita Dove

striking rock—the spark - Song of Smoke by Kevin Young

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Whimsical Wednesday 30 October

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

As a poet I read a lot of poetry and some more on top. I also find one line taken out of context can lead to a whole new dimension of creativity. The idea of this challenge therefore is to create what comes to mind from lines of poetry.

This week’s lines of poetry are:

• Has shone in the water for ages - Late August on the Lido by John Hollander

• simmering like wasps - The Old Flame by Robert Lowell

• but the anarchists now occupy - The Barcelona Inside Me by Robin Becker

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Whimsical Wednesday – 09 October 2013

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem.

As a poet I read a lot of poetry and some more on top. I also find one line taken out of context can lead to a whole new dimension of creativity. The idea of this challenge therefore is to create what comes to mind from lines of poetry.

This week’s lines of poetry are:

a thundery sky drunk on its own ozone – Small Comfort by Katha Pollitt

forward along the cliff-edge – The Composer Says This is How We Should Live Our Lives by Patricia Fargnoli

Or ere the first sun fledged his wings of flame – Mother Night by James Weldon Johnson

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Whimsical Wednesday – 25 September 2013

As a poet I read a lot of poetry and some more on top. I also find one line taken out of context can lead to a whole new dimension of creativity. The idea of this challenge therefore is to create what comes to mind from lines of poetry.

This week’s lines of poetry are:

and I know she would not like that – At Emily's in Amherst by David Ray

And lust of fame was but a dream – The Old Stoic by Emily Bronte

that never fit into the distant waves – Puzzle Dust by Dorianne Laux

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Whimsical Wednesday – 18 September 2013

As a poet I read a lot of poetry and some more on top. I also find one line taken out of context can lead to a whole new dimension of creativity. The idea of this challenge therefore is to create what comes to mind from lines of poetry.

This week’s lines of poetry are:

A sliding shape has stirred them like a breath – Atavism by Elinor Wylie

In their green zone they sang my name – Morning Swim by Maxine Kumin

conjoined at the exquisitely right time – After a Brubeck Concert by Miller Williams

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