#Poem-a-day Challenge

[gtunesmiff]

2024 APRIL POEM-A-DAY CHALLENGE: DAY 2

Today's prompt, from Robert Lee Brewer's blog Poetic Asides, is our first Two-Fer-Tuesday prompt, which means you get two prompts.

You can write to one of the prompts, both the prompts separately, or try to write a poem that works with both prompts at the same time.

The prompts are:

Write a happy poem, and/or...

Write a sad poem.

Two sides of the same emotional coin.

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

#poetic asides #poetry prompts #robert lee brewer #poem-a-day #2024 april pad #2024 april poem-a-day #poem-a-day challenge

[simmyfrobby]

― Voting as Fire Extinguisher, Kyle Tran Myhre

Hockey Poetry Post 48/?

(Photo credit: Dave Sandford, Chase Agnello-Dean, link, Chris Sweda, Debora Robinson, Bill Smith, Jeff Haynes, Chase Agnello-Dean, Jeff Vinnick, link)

#this poem has been rotting away in my drafts since the day after the lottery #and I haven't wanted to post it because #idk. obvious reasons I guess. #but then the NHL draft brought it all back so now I guess I WILL post it and just trust u guys to understand Nuance #NHL be better challenge #this one looks a little different than most of the other poems but also there's certain names and faces I dont really want on my blog #and also I hate the logo so ... #ok sorry about the weird tags im still not sure about this is all #hockey poetry posts #connor bedard #nhl draft 2023 #might delete this first thing tomorrow morning if I change my mind. who's to say. #chicago blackhawks #< for blacklist

[bemyvalentinechallenge]

The Be My Valentine Challenge 2024

An event from @timecanalwayshealyou

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The Be My Valentine Challenge is a challenge for writers, artists, and just any kind of creator, from the first of February to the 14th!

The idea is to create thirteen smaller, lead-up pieces based on the prompts; for example, ficlets/drabbles/one-shots, couplets, small artworks, individual gifs, et. cetera - and finish the challenge with a larger work; a fic, a full poem, a gifset, a big artwork, whatever sparks for you!

They can be a series or separate, and you're free to change mediums or fandoms for different days. If you'd rather create fourteen small works, or all large ones, or a combination of both, that's completely up to you! Prompts can be used after the event, combined, just do whatever! Only "properly" used prompts will be reblogged to this page, however.

The catch; it's all romance prompts, in the spirit of Valentine's Day and because everyone on this site is single and lonely.

Each day has a quote from an iconic or relevant romance film (The Notebook, Red, White and Royal Blue, The Fault In Our Stars, Pride And Prejudice, etc.), an iconic love song, and a romantic cliché, act, or item.

This account will be reblogging a few works (art, drabbles, ficposts, etc.) from the event tag (bemyvalentine2024) each day. Full tagging rules, the transcribed prompt list, and other event details are under the cut. If you're unsure about anything, send in an ask! Happy Creating!

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There will be an ao3 collection open from the first of February to the fourteenth for submission. Artworks, gifsets, etc. posted to tumblr should be tagged appropriately to be seen as part of the event.

The official spotify playlist for the event can be found here.

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Anyone who completes this event is considered a Valentine, and anyone who participates is a Lover. At the end of the event, a form will be put out, so if you wish to be tagged in a masterpost, keep an eye out! I won't be fact-checking, it's an honour system, so please be honest.

There will be completion and participation badges, too! They're in the works as we speak!

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Tagging System:

event tag - #bemyvalentine2024

prompt tag - #bemyvalentineno1, #bemyvalentineno2, etc.

(Or #bemyvalentinealt1, #bemyvalentinealt2, if you use alt promtps)

the theme or specific prompt/s you chose - #love poems, #quote, etc.

fandom or oc - #stranger things, #original content, etc.

any trigger warnings/nsfw tags if needed

and then your own tags!

Only works tagged correctly will be reblogged to this page, so please take note!

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Transcribed Prompt List:

Day 1: "But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." Because You Loved Me, Celine Dion | Love Poems

Day 2: "I want all of you, forever. You and me. Every day." A Thousand Years, Christina Perri | Growing Old Together

Day 3: "I fell in love with a world through her eyes." Ocean Eyes, Billie Eilish | Love at First Sight

Day 4: "I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you." Marry Me, Train | Wedding Vows

Day 5: "My love will keep me from being a lonely spirit." When I Look At You, Miley Cyrus | Long Distance

Day 6: "People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance that anyone's got for true happiness." Home, Edward Sharpe | First Love

Day 7: "It's so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk." Sweater Weather, The Neighbourhood | Snowed In

Day 8: "I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." Say You Won't Let Go, James Arthur | Love Letter

Day 9: "You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." Lay Me Down, Sam Smith | Widowed

Day 10: "Hold on, are you writing a song?" I Want To Write You A Song, One Direction | Love Songs

Day 11: "To me, you are perfect." Perfect, Ed Sheeran | Kissing in the Rain

Day 12: "History, huh? Bet we could make some." Love Story, Taylor Swift | Historical Romance

Day 13: "I wish I knew how to quit you." All of Me, John Legend | Making Up

Day 14: "You don't step in love, you fall in. Head over heels." I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston | Valentine's Day

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#bemyvalentine2024 #valentine's day #writing #fanfiction #art #art challenge #gifs #poems #poetry #writeblr #poetblr #artblr #please reblog #boost

[fernthewhimsical]

Prayer for Cernunnos

Lord of the liminal, the in-between The place between life and death, man and woman, hunter and hunted Lord of the cycles of life, of both ancient moss covered forests, and hallowed burial mounds King to all who live in your realms, plant and animal, witch and Fae, and all that lies in between. I honour you

#pagan #deity #prayer a day #day 1 #challenge #cernunnos #prayer #poem #paganblr

[dostoyevsky-official]

I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries

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I have not lingered in European monasteries

and discovered among the tall grasses tombs of knights

who fell as beautifully as their ballads tell;

I have not parted the grasses

or purposefully left them thatched.

I have not released my mind to wander and wait

in those great distances

between the snowy mountains and the fishermen,

like a moon,

or a shell beneath the moving water.

I have not held my breath

so that I might hear the breathing of God,

or tamed my heartbeat with an exercise,

or starved for visions.

Although I have watched him often

I have not become the heron,

leaving my body on the shore,

and I have not become the luminous trout,

leaving my body in the air.

I have not worshipped wounds and relics,

or combs of iron,

or bodies wrapped and burnt in scrolls.

I have not been unhappy for ten thousand years.

During the day I laugh and during the night I sleep.

My favourite cooks prepare my meals,

my body cleans and repairs itself,

and all my work goes well.

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This poem reminds me of Bachkovo monastery, Bulgaria in the spring.

#thanks for sharing! #2024 poetry challenge #if you sent me the other ask with this poem sorry i didn't get around it #day trip to bachkovo after i wake up in sofia

[poetrybyonur]

A true friend isn’t someone who says what you want to hear. They challenge you. They question you. They reason with you, make you think, and often tell you what you need to hear, even if you don’t like it. Holding up a mirror so you can see yourself. Greek philosopher Plutarch said, “I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” I’d rather have a friend who picks my mind and shows me my reflection.

#poets on tumblr #love quotes #love poetry #romantic poetry #love poem #romantic writer #onurtaskiran poetry #poets and writers #gentleman poet #love #friends #friendship #challenge #beautiful soul #mirror #plutarch #poem of the day #daily poetry #friendship quotes #friendship poem

[goosec0id]

The lights aflame upon an inky night,

Slim lightning bugs against the murky sky.

While life’s great pounding din extends up high,

A match takes flame against his hands, so bright.

The flare emits a blare of brilliant white.

One deep inhale to hang his lungs to dry.

An exhalation, though more of a sigh.

A bitter thing before a glowing sight.

“I miss the grass of youth,” so whispers he.

“The lovely place where I did freely roam,

A stark contrast upon this urban sea.”

The words descend beneath the smog’s dark foam

And grow no grander than a broken plea:

An echo of a wish for home.

#illustration #digital illustration #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #green #smoke #city #nature #flowers #poetry #sonnet #my art #my writing #oh my god trying to paste the poem in was a bitch #tumblr have funcitoning UI challenge impossible #also posting the green boy on st. patricks day was a total coincidence i forgot it was happening to day #so #happy saint patrick’s day #i suppose #enjooooy #original art

[divinationdrawings]

Let me tell you a tale of the swan prince and princess Two young lovers by the name of Caer Ibormeith and Aengus He searched the globe to find her and she sent him dreams Yet when he laid eyes upon her he found she is not all she seems She turned into a bird and looked up at him with deep black eyes And so he made himself a swan as well, and swam off with her into the sunrise

This celtic tale is thought to be a basis for many swan tales including Swan Lake and The Swan Princess, but finding hard evidence for this is difficult as many swan tales exist. as always I encourage you to do your own research.

Caer Ibormeith is a goddess of dreams and prophecy, and she marries the god of beauty and youth Aengus Og after they "fly off together in the form of a pair of swans." Source: The Dictionary of Celtic Mythology by James MacKillop.

#inktober rise #inktober #inktober day 13 #inktoberrise #inktober challenge #aengus og #swan princess #swan lake #celtic mythology #celtic myth #obod #bard #original poetry #original poets on tumblr #original poem #celtic paganism #irish folklore #caer ibormeith

[danalockhart411]

PAD Day #10

I Am Enough

Nobody can love me more than me, But maybe that's why I am lonely. I can see every reason why I should twinkle in someone's eye, Because I see it every day in mine. I treat myself with awe and respect And so I expect nothing less. I know why my love is worth risking it all Because I risked it all to love myself. I see how it might be hard to compete With someone who loves as much as me, But if you can't love me the way I do, Then there's nothing more to say to you.

#poem a day #pad #poetry month #poem a day challenge #poetry #spilled ink #quotes #contemporary poetry #my writing #women poets #poems and poetry #poets corner #writeblr #writer stuff #writers on tumblr #love yourself #self love #self worth #self care #you are worthy #you are loved

[blood-sweat-pencraft]

And what, precisely, were you doing in the garden?

Smashing the padlock and trespassing

Eating the apple and getting into trouble

Looking for answers from the gardener

It is like three different people talking at the same time

And every word means three different things

He was answering too many questions too quickly

And they were stacking up in my head like loaves of bread in a factory

Like being corrected by three mathematicians and still not seeing my mistake

Found poem source:

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage Books, New York, 2003. pp: 7-8, 31-33, 59-63, 85-6, 134

#found poem #poetry #writing #thepoeming #amwriting #writers on tumblr #napowrimo #30 day challenge #mark haddon #the curious incident of the dog in the night time #banned books #bans off our poetry

[iwantsnuggles]

Oblivion

Day 1

The lives I will never live, the words I will never say, the eyes I will never meet, can they knock another day?

Today is weighed by enough guilt, too formidable is the existing debris, for now, I only crave oblivion and the nothing it demands of me

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#original poem #poems on tumblr #oblivion #expectations #amateurpoetry #imperfect #writing #poem #challenge #creating #im so tired #mentally tired #overwhelmed #struggle #sleep #detachment #day 1 #writers and poets #creative writing #art #writeblr #poetry #poems and poetry #words words words #poetic #tired #im tired #i’m tired #i need sleep #mental fatigue

[thedeafprophet]

@awordbroken okay im gonna babble a bit on its own post XD

i actually picked my ocs birthdays based on a combo of horoscope signs (despite not believing any of it i have fun with it) but the specific day is based on the old 'monday's child' poem which ive been fond of since i was a kid

Rory, February 2nd, 1874, on a monday, 'Monday's child is fair of face'

Josephine, April 26th, 1876, on a wednesday, 'Wednesday's child is full of woe'

Jamie, October 29th, 1874, on a thursday (like me), 'Thursday's child has far to go'

Alex, November 15th, 1872, on a friday, 'Friday's child is loving and giving'

#alex and jamie also had the added challenge of wanting to overlap scorpio (because of a song lyrics tbh) with them #BUT ALSO not wanting it to be too close to my birthday #and THEN picking a day of the week akdkfkgkj #oc talk #im fond of the poem cuz one of my moms friends crochet a thing for me as a baby with my name and 'thursdays child has far to go' #the phrase has always stuck with me #okay thank u for listening to my ramble XD <3

[attaboy-art]

hi, yes, I would like to honestly see Bronev or the Masked Gentleman and like the good sides of them tryna break free maybe? if that's too difficult, just one of the two is okay!

i may have, once again, gone just a little overboard

[Image ID: A digital painting of, from left to right, Randall Ascot as the Masked Gentleman, Teen Randall, and Craggy Dale Randall, all in front of a black background. Each Randall has their own halo that is slightly melting. The Masked Gentleman does not have his mask, wig, or hat, and is staring down at his hands, which are covered in blood. He is visibly distressed. His coattails blow behind him and one of his wings is visible, stretching out to the right. Light is cast on him from below. Teen Randall is behind him, drawn from the chest up from behind the wing and in profile facing the right, holding his head high and smirking, looking back at the Masked Gentleman. He is cast in a softer, golden light from above. Craggy Dale Randall is drawn slouching and also from the chest up and in profile to the right, behind the other Randalls, holding up one hand with sand in his palm that is trickling out. He is drawn in a dimmer light with harsher shadows. The edges of the black canvas are colored a dark teal. Dark grey text at the top reads, with no spaces between the words or punctuation, "What have I done? You died! When you come back, you will never be the same." /.End ID.]

(accompanying poem below the cut)

what did i do?

you died.

why couldn't i live longer?

the truth is something you do not deserve

the truth is that the world should've moved on without you

you know this already.

so all you can do is rebuild

so lay down your sword,

farmer,

and shape yourself into the world you thought you left

and become a parody of yourself,

martyr,

be a symbol

or die trying.

sink into me and know yourself.

#click on the image for higher quality. Shakinf my fist at tumblr #yes i know the text at the top doesnt match the actual poem. but it works better methinks #anyways anyways. that poem took me days to figure out the format of #'but atticus youve been writing for HOW long?' #yeah yeah i know. i know. #ANYWAYS... i am so sorry this took literal months. college and art challenges have been kicking my ass #I HOPE YOU LIKE IT... orz. i know i went kinda ham and ran with the prompt. im sorry #art #fanart #illustration #professor layton #pl #randall ascot #the masked gentleman #miracle mask #painting

[jaina-chaosweaver-of-fate]

It's been a while since I've seen you, Since I last saw you up close, But you asked for what I couldn't give, And when I should've explained I just froze,

We've both moved on now, But sometimes I think of what we once had, I hope that for you it is the same, Because in the end I don't think it was that bad.

But we were never meant to last, So close our fires burnt each other, It was glorious when we worked, And in the end it was worth the bother.

It's been a while since I've seen you, Guess I'm finally moving on, Even though we never would have worked, I can now accept that you're gone.

#daily poetry challenge #day 724 #Irene perspective poem. #On moving on and friendships that didn’t last. #That last verse hit me though.

[connectingwithsoul]

I want to hear the word "ALWAYS" coming out of your mouth when you talk about me. @connectingwithsoul

#20 day challenge #personal journal #love #young love #True Love #unrequited love #Tumblr Love #love quote #love poems #unconditional love #Twin Flames #soulmates #original writing #emotional words #sentimental #Romantic Quotes #romantic thoughts #spilled thoughts #spilled truth #quotes and sayings #twinflames #spiritual journey #growing up #happiness #sadness #crush quotes #unrequited feelings #old flame #hope #always and forever

[dostoyevsky-official]

please don't memorize two-headed calf.

#this is the kid who always had a rose grew from concrete for poem in your pocket day for tumblr #website stuck in 2015 #2024 poetry challenge