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Prompt 436 – Creative
Tag – The Snake
You were doing some yard work. It wasn’t exactly how you planned to spend your day, but it needed to be done. As you reached in to pull some weeds a large snake with bright blue eyes slithers into view and lifts itself to watch you. What does the strange snake do? How do you react?

Prompt 437 – Creative
Tag – First Line
“Where did they want to meet us, again?

And it's time for the next poetry prompt!

Poetry Prompt #12: Rondo
Write one Rondò based on a well-known movie scene. Channel the pathos you personally know and love from a favorite movie moment, like Scarlett O'Hara grubbing turnips and saying "As God is my witness…" or, the adrenalin injection scene from Pulp Fiction – you choose. Work those emotions into three quatrains, with the pivot point coming on the 3^rd one. You decide how or if you wish to rhyme it, and how many syllables each line contains. You can read more, here.

For the Poetry Prompt Response, I decided to feature Headstall's response to Poetry Prompt #11:

Horsefly starts its dive
Tail swishes in defiance
Begins a dark dance

And for the featured prompt response from last week, here's JohnAR's response to prompt #435

“They are so cute,” Brian couldn’t help it but his voice broke like that of a 12-year-old boy.

 

“Cuddly,” CE confirmed but he was more interested in licking his ice cream cone.

 

“Don’t try, they scratch like beasts and all have chlamydia or whatever,” Prime warned unnecessarily. Neither Brian nor CE had the intent to jump into the Koala bears’ compound in the San Diego Zoo.

 

Brian played along feigning disappointment: “Shame, otherwise I would have taken one with us. I promise I’ll take good care of it!”

Read the rest, here.