On Sunday, 14 June 2015, I launched my Project 365.
You can see all the images as they are posted to the mobile | mono | square album on my flickr account.
My plan, let’s see if I can stick to this, is to post a weekly update here each Sunday.
Do you miss the Writing 201 Poetry course by the Daily Post? Then join this blogging challenge, Poetry 101 Rehab, that will provide your poetry fix!
How does it work?
For several weeks now, each Monday at 01:00 pm UTC, Mara Eastern has published a poetry prompt along with her response to it, you can see them all here. On 30 June, Mara announced that she is taking a blogging hiatus this Summer to focus on her dissertation. I am serving as locum “poet in residence” at the clinic until her return – and hope that I don’t lose any of her patients! I will continue to publish a weekly prompt exactly as before. You are invited to answer the prompt, twist it or ignore it; write a poem of your own or share a poem by another author. I would love to hear about your inspiration, your creative process or other poetry related thoughts, but this is no way obligatory. Nothing is obligatory in this challenge, the idea is to get together, talk poetry and have fun!
How can you take part?
Anyone can participate, anytime you want. Publish your poetry post and add a link to it by clicking on the Poetry 101 Rehab badge below or share your link in a comment. Use the tag Poetry 101 Rehab, so we can find each other in the Reader. 
I will act as your host, and I’ll be here for you to reply to your comments, read your poetry, like and comment. While this post is the starting point for the challenge, do visit fellow poets in the link-up and chat to them on their blogs!
This week’s prompt is PARTITIONS.
PARTITIONS
partitions
they place us
partitions
they alienate us
partitions
they restrain us
partitions
they threaten us
partitions
they inhibit us
partitions
they truncate us
partitions
they invalidate us
partitions
they obscure us
partitions
they nullify us
partitions
they suffocate us
partitions
My response, PARTITIONS was randomly selected by taking the first word of the third line of Chapter 8 of Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (iBooks edition). What will your take on the keyword PARTITIONS be? Blog about it in a poetry post and share your link in the comments section of this post and by clicking on the Poetry 101 Badge above.
On Sunday, 14 June 2015, I launched my Project 365.
You can see all the images as they are posted to the mobile | mono | square album on my flickr account.
My plan, let’s see if I can stick to this, is to post a weekly update here each Sunday.
Do you miss the Writing 201 Poetry course by the Daily Post? Then join this blogging challenge, Poetry 101 Rehab, that will provide your poetry fix!
How does it work?
For several weeks now, each Monday at 01:00 pm UTC, Mara Eastern has published a poetry prompt along with her response to it, you can see them all here. On 30 June, Mara announced that she is taking a blogging hiatus this Summer to focus on her dissertation. I am serving as locum “poet in residence” at the clinic until her return – and hope that I don’t lose any of her patients! I will continue to publish a weekly prompt exactly as before.
You are invited to answer the prompt, twist it or ignore it; write a poem of your own or share a poem by another author.
We would love to hear about your inspiration, your creative process or other poetry related thoughts, but this is in no way obligatory. Nothing is obligatory in this challenge, the idea is to get together, talk poetry and have fun!
How can you take part?
Anyone can participate, anytime you want. Publish your poetry post and add a link to it by clicking on the Poetry 101 Rehab badge below or share your link in a comment. Use the tag Poetry 101 Rehab, so we can find each other in the Reader.
I will act as your host, and I’ll be here for you to reply to your comments, read your poetry, like and comment. While this post is the starting point for the challenge, do visit fellow poets in the link-up and chat to them on their blogs!
This week’s prompt is CONNECTION.
CONNECTION
baggage tags time lags
wireless timeless
this way that way (which way)
time lags baggage tags
remove belt coins shoes watch (dignity)
laptop (must go) on top
baggage tags time lags
liquids no go must go
(come this way please)
time lags baggage tags
rushing pushing
duty free wifi
baggage tags time lags
this way that way no way (they say)
final call
for us all
My response, CONNECTION was inspired by my recent flight to Belgrade from Brussel via Wien. What will your take on the keyword CONNECTION be? Blog about it in a poetry post and share your link in the comments section of this post and by clicking on the Poetry 1o1 Badge above.
On Sunday, 14 June 2015, I launched my Project 365.
You can see all the images as they are posted to the mobile | mono | square album on my flickr account.
My plan, let’s see if I can stick to this, is to post a weekly update here each Sunday.
Do you miss the Writing 201 Poetry course by the Daily Post? Then join this blogging challenge, Poetry 101 Rehab, that will provide your poetry fix!
How does it work?
For several weeks now, each Monday at 01:00 pm UTC, Mara Eastern has published a poetry prompt along with her response to it, you can see them all here. On 30 June, Mara announced that she is taking a blogging hiatus this Summer to focus on her dissertation. I am serving as locum “poet in residence” at the clinic until her return – and hope that I don’t lose any of her patients! I will continue to publish a weekly prompt exactly as before.
You are invited to answer the prompt, twist it or ignore it; write a poem of your own or share a poem by another author.
I would love to hear about your inspiration, your creative process or other poetry related thoughts, but this is no way obligatory. Nothing is obligatory in this challenge, the idea is to get together, talk poetry and have fun!
How can you take part?
Anyone can participate, anytime you want. Publish your poetry post and add a link to it by clicking on the Poetry 101 Rehab badge below or share your link in a comment. Use the tag Poetry 101 Rehab, so we can find each other in the Reader.
I will act as your host, and I’ll be here for you to reply to your comments, read your poetry, like and comment. While this post is the starting point for the challenge, do visit fellow poets in the link-up and chat to them on their blogs!
This week’s prompt is DEADLINE.
DEADLINE
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
must work, must work
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
can’t slack, can’t slack
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
keep typing, keep typing
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
can’t think, can’t think
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
can’t sleep, can’t sleep
deadline
no time, no time
dead____________
My response, DEADLINE was inspired by the feelings we can all too easily endure when working up against a deadline, so it’s a very personal, blunt, take on this week’s prompt. What will your take on the keyword DEADLINE be? Blog about it in a poetry post and share your link in the comments section of this post and by clicking on the Poetry 1o1 Badge above.
On Sunday, 14 June 2015, I launched my Project 365.
You can see all the images as they are posted to the mobile | mono | square album on my flickr account.
My plan, let’s see if I can stick to this, is to post a weekly update here each Sunday.
‘one half of me is yours, the other half is yours,
mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
and so all yours’
― william shakespeare, the merchant of venice
‘i take pictures photographic pictures bright light dark room’
depeche mode, photographic, 1981
(for dp weekly photo challenge – half and half)
Do you miss the Writing 201 Poetry course by the Daily Post? Then join this blogging challenge, Poetry 101 Rehab, that will provide your poetry fix!
How does it work?
For several weeks now, each Monday at 01:00 pm UTC, Mara Eastern has published a poetry prompt along with her response to it, you can see them all here. On 30 June, Mara announced that she is taking a blogging hiatus this Summer to focus on her dissertation. I am serving as locum “poet in residence” at the clinic until her return – and hope that I don’t lose any of her patients! I will continue to publish a weekly prompt exactly as before.
You are invited to answer the prompt, twist it or ignore it; write a poem of your own or share a poem by another author.
I would love to hear about your inspiration, your creative process or other poetry related thoughts, but this is no way obligatory. Nothing is obligatory in this challenge, the idea is to get together, talk poetry and have fun!
How can you take part?
Anyone can participate, anytime you want. Publish your poetry post and add a link to it by clicking on the Poetry 101 Rehab badge below or share your link in a comment. Use the tag Poetry 101 Rehab, so we can find each other in the Reader.
I will act as your host, and I’ll be here for you to reply to your comments, read your poetry, like and comment. While this post is the starting point for the challenge, do visit fellow poets in the link-up and chat to them on their blogs!
This week’s prompt is STACK
stack
two lanes deep
stack
two lanes deep, nose to tail
stack
two lanes deep, nose to tail, steaming and fuming
stack
so far they travelled
stack
so far they travelled, arm in arm
stack
so far they travelled, arm in arm, fearing and hoping
stack
not what they were told, before the
stack
My interpretation, STACK, was inspired by a recent road trip to the United Kingdom through the Eurotunnel, disrupted recently by tension surrounding action taken by migrants in France seeking to gain access to the United Kingdom by any means. What will your take on the keyword STACK be? Blog about it in a poetry post and share your link in the comments section of my post and by clicking on the Poetry 1o1 Badge above.
andy townend 