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Poetry Friday: Story Cubes Poems "Adventure Awaits"

 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:

three story cube dice: two people shaking hands giving thumbs up; mountains with a river and moon; a tortoise or turtle

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 in the comments.

Our wonderful Poetry Friday host this week is Susan at Chicken Spaghetti. You can find all of this week's poetry goodness here

Note: For some reason, I'm having difficulty commenting on some PF blogs, despite being logged in to the required platforms. My apologies to those poets for whom I couldn't leave comments for - I truly enjoyed your poems! 

Comments

  1. Ah, that first step! I love that you are challenging yourself to write fast! What fun. Thank you!

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  2. Setting our own pace feels like a loving promise, Elisabeth! I love these, may need to get some of my own! My idea:

    he broke through my shell
    when he showed me the mountains
    love in the heights

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  3. I love using Story Cubes with the kiddos in my writing program, they're such great fun, especially when I hear the inevitable "teacher, I don't know what to wriiiite!" ;-)

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  4. I love what you did with those three images - a nod to adventure as well as pacing. My thoughts went to helping baby turtles make it back into the ocean. : )

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  5. Such fun, Elizabeth! And a great morning prompt-discipline. I need to look up where to get some of these.

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  6. So good! Those story cubes are the best! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com

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  7. Not overthinking--that's what I need to try to do!

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  8. My mind is seeing two people and two mountains, and I'm filling in with two turtles. Maybe a poem about friendships?

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  9. Ah, this poem is such a good reminder: "There isn't a hare./This isn't a race." Thank you! So cool that the Story Cubes helped generate it! --Susan T.

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  10. Oh I love how you incorporated everything into your poem, especially the encouragement of taking that first step. Thanks for sharing!

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  11. I'm inspired by those first two lines written in negatives. They create some space and curiosity/anticipation about what will fill it.

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  12. Elisabeth, nice job! I love the idea of working fast. I'm trying a shadorma, like Irene did this week.

    Agreed! We'll
    take the full moon path,
    the calm one,
    where we will
    dream of quiet, slow days like
    the turtle's

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  13. There is such a lovely lilting rhythm to this, Elisabeth. I don't know what I would have done - but I like what you did! (A fun way to feed a creative practise when you're stretched thin.)

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  14. What a fun prompt--and hooray to writing fast, zipping right by any insecurities or objections your logical brain might throw at you. Here's mine:

    The turtle,
    slow as a mountain,
    moves across the earth,
    feet agreeing with soil,
    shell agreeing with breeze.

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  15. This is REALLY fun -- I love the prompt and the poem!

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  16. Great to see you here as well as on Think Poetry, Elizabeth. I did not know about story cubes but I have to say it seems fun. Quick Write below:
    Turtle Tale

    Just a turn here
    And a stop there
    Makes me aware
    Life’s endless race
    Is not a chase
    But a slow walk
    To a happy place
    With friends

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  17. How clever. I love the way you are using the story cubes here.

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