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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Today's Poem or Short Story Prompt: (1 of 2 - see below for details!)

This blog is devoted to a select group of poets. We're starting with poets from the Ann Arbor area, but, hey, if you're from Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw or the Upper Peninsula, then that is okay, too. We've even been so generous to accept poets from other parts of the USA and the entire country of Canada!

Our goal is to provide you with a prompt every day from which you are to garner inspiration and submit a poem. How to submit will be very easy.  Just put your poem or short story  in the comments section and hit post. You may not immediately see your post, but it is there under the "Comments" section. You may need to click on "Comments" to see your poem.  It is there on another page.

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Today's poem or short story prompt is a little different: there are 2 of them. This is the first one:

"It belonged in the distance - that was its domain..."

1 comment:

  1. Morning Twilight

    Cat at her post,
    tail twitching,
    wise golden eyes
    fixed, I am certain,
    at twilight rabbits,
    under cover of gray,
    nibbling through
    the last of winter’s whiteness
    to tender shoots below.

    Silver beam of light
    snakes and sprawls.
    Dry ice dressed up in glitter
    on a floor I know is cold.

    Cat’s eyes are red.

    Do I dream?

    What moon is this
    not full, but bright
    beyond all comprehension?
    No rabbits.
    No shadows on moon or earth below
    just white
    and close -- too close -- and closer.

    I look away.

    Predatory light you belong in the distance.
    This is our domain.

    I look away.

    Do I dream?

    I look away.

    I look away.

    I look away
    to red
    just red.
    A bloody veil
    has fallen.
    Red shadows,
    red light,
    red cat,
    tail twitching.

    Heidi Watkins
    copyright 2014

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