Unexpected Intersections

 Happy Friday! Thank you for all the comments , well wishes (I'm feeling much better now, thank goodness!) and poems (it's so fun to see what other poets do with the same prompts!) in response to last week's post. Here are the Story Cubes prompts that I rolled for this week's poem: As part of this Story Cubes poem project, I'm not only challenging myself to write poems based on the dice prompts, but also to write the poems quickly. The goal is to jumpstart the creative process and not overthink my ideas. So, without further ado, here is my poem based on this prompt. Adventure Awaits There isn’t a hare. This isn’t a race. It’s true that we’re slow as a tortoise. But … We’re in agreement. We’ve chosen a path. In the landscape adventure awaits! We’ll set our own pace One step at a time. And the first step? We walk through the gate. © 2024, Elisabeth Norton What about you? What would you do with this inspiration? I'd love to read your poems based on this prompt i...

Two weeks into 2024, and I can say I've been sick for more than half of the year ... I hope your year is off to a healthier start! My 2023 was filled with lots of teaching and many writing deadlines, all of which left me no time for blogging about poetry and the writing life. But the good news is ... I have good news  about some of those writing projects that I should be able to share here in the months to come. As I come out of blogging hibernation, I was wondering how I wanted to approach my Poetry Friday posts this year. I love prompts, including Taylor Mali 's metaphor dice , and I was wondering how I could find some similar inspiration that was more kid-focused. That's when I remembered my Story Cubes !  These dice with images can be used to play games, or to roll up some inspiration on demand, and I've decided to use them as prompts for my Poetry Friday poems this year. So, without further ado, here is the first of my Story Cube poems, inspired by these dice: X Ma...