Who's missed the weekly prompts? It's been a few weeks since we posted some new prompts to help spark some ideas, but they're back. Not only do we have two new prompts for you, but for those that missed it, we also have the new poetry prompt for you! Don't forget that anything under 1000 words needs to be in a collection and that authors are allowed 5 different collections without Admin approval.

 

Prompt 478 – Creative
Tag – List of Words
Use the following words in a story – roses, bacon, a frog, balloons, and new sneakers.

 

Prompt 479 – Creative
Tag – Wishes
You and two of your close friends joke about what would make the perfect date. Each of you list five things that are absolutely necessary to make the perfect person. You read the list of items and wish you could find one person who encompassed them all. The following day the three of you go for coffee and spot someone who seems to be created out of your list of requirements from the night before. Who is this mystery person and is he there to fulfill your wishes or make your lives a nightmare?

 

Poetry Prompt 18 – Rubaiyat
write one four-lined Khayyám-style Rubaiyat on the theme of 'your muse' (with or without references to drink and pretty boys ). In addition, write one multi-stanza Interlocking Rubaiyat based on the sights and feelings stirred in you by watching Ambrose Bierce's short story,

. Use the consistent line lengths you think are best for the individual poems, and follow the basic rhyme patterns for the two types of Rubaiyat.

 

For our featured prompt response today, I'm using Aditus' response to Poetry Prompt #17:

The Pool
The water surface glitters in the sun,
beckons us over to come and have fun.
Little leaf boats only need a push
Clothes fly behind the elder bush.

 

Naked in a mad dash
Jumping in a big splash
Frozen we shiver
And blue lips quiver

 

You can read the rest, here.