Unexpected Intersections

 Hi everyone! After a whirlwind trip to the SCBWI Winter Conference , where I was inspired by our keynote speaker, Joseph Coelho , Children's Poet Laureate for the UK, I'm back home and diving deep into poetry again with this week's Story Cubes poem.  This poem is part of my ongoing challenge to myself to write to a prompt generated by  Story Cubes . I'm trying to reflect the order of the images on the cubes in the poem itself, and I'm challenging myself to write quickly: 20 minutes or less for each poem. This week's prompts left me feeling stymied for a while, but I let the images simmer for a while as I was cooking dinner and soon this poem emerged.     I Gave a Wave I waved to the waves And the waves waved back Then I waved goodbye But I’ll be back! © 2024, Elisabeth Norton What about you? What would you do with these as inspiration? I'd love to hear about it in the comments! Our generous host for Poetry Friday this week is Tabatha Yeatts over at The Oppo...

 Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host this week is Mary Lee. She's shared a wonderful poem of her own, one by Sandra Cisneros, a video and more in her post. You can find all that poetic goodness and links to the other participating poets over here on her blog. My Story Cubes poetry prompt this week had me a little stumped at first. In addition to trying to write fast, I'm also challenging myself to keep the order of the dice in my poem. So if the cauldron comes first, I'm trying to make it first thing I mention. Either I like multi-dimensional chess, or I like making things challenging for myself. Or maybe both! Here are this week's prompts: And here is my poem. Plot Problems First I drew a cauldron Bubbling full of poisoned brew. Then I drew a hungry hero Now I don’t know what to do. hmmm . . . .  I know how to fix this! Draw one big foot, then two. Run fast, my big foot hero! Go find some barbecue. © 2025, Elisabeth Norton, all rights reserved What about you? Have you ...