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Writing Prompt

POEM STARTER

Write a poem reflecting the themes of a famous book.

Your poem can be about anything in the book - try not to mention the title and see if your readers can guess which book you've chosen.

Writings

This World

Wands

Witches

Wizards


All learning

In one

Big school


Giants

Elfs

Goblins


In the mountains

Working in homes

At the bank


The wonderful school

You enter at eleven

To go until you’re seventeen

To learn magic...

Seed

Buried deep under well-loved green hardback

swirled in serifs of gold leaf still bright

Neither dead nor forgotten not lost

but waiting to take root

first a primal crack

a tenacious root pale and hungry

but willing to split rock

finds its purchase

then the unfurling

tremulous trembling green spearheading through sun-warmed earth

there is

green just beneath the surface


before the crack of the m...

Troubling Thoughts

They can hear my thoughts

My troubling, troubling, thoughts

My terrifyingly independent troubling troubling thoughts


They hurt me for my thoughts

My troubling, troubling thoughts

They torture me until I give in

For my troubling, troubling thoughts


They change my troubling thoughts

To not so troubling thoughts

Maybe they weren’t that bad

For changing my troubling, troubling thoughts...

Click Click Click

We so rarely see in the mirror

That which we yearn for the most.

We go on these journeys

To cure our disabilities.


And in our odyssey for wholeness,

The road challenges us

To discover

That these strengths

Were never missing,

But have always shaped

who we are.


And in turn,

we help the friends

Who we find along the way

To look inside themselves

Where their deepest desires too lay....

Ogre

She was useless,

Broken,

Scattered,

Insipid.

She was an ogre,

Abandoned,

Defenseless,

Discarded,

She was a shell,

Empty....

The Ring

Wizards

And Dwarfs

With Elves

And more


The Hobbit

Lives happily

While the King

Lives mercilessly


Talking trees

Carry the lost

While bald eagles

Save the lot


The ring

was stolen

Or lost

Now swollen


By greed

And fervor

While Sméagol

With ring fever


Strider

And his Princess

Happily

No resistance


In the end

The ring returns

All’s mended

No more yearn

Tessa🩋...

In Seek Of ‘The Soul Of The World’

His journey to seek the secrets of life

A flock of sheep sold and a fortune teller told

A thousand pounds in the markets of Egypt

Dreams reflected in glass and crystal clear


At the base of the pyramid of dreams

Desires of going upwards with untold fortune

Fallen from wealth and now upon a camels back

An Englishman, an Arab girl, a journey with no way back


The wise man he finds, his true self...

Fireman

Fireman

Fire is no longer your enemy

A laughable fable

Firemen didn’t fight fire


Fireman

You start the fire

You burn the pages

You stop all dangerous thinking


Fireman

A perfect 451 degrees

Leather melts

Gilded edges crinkle


Fireman

You hide one away

You think outside the box

You find others


Fireman

Your wife wears the seashells in her ears

She doesn’t believe you

Where can you go from h...

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The Night

Day turns into night

That’s when we awaken

To find that not everything is right.

The high Council is here

To discuss things we fear

The person we trusted is evil....

Girl In Green

Pretty siren girl

You found fame on tv screens

Lovers come and go

But still you yearn for more

Perhaps that is because

You have sold your heart and name

For a life you thought you wanted

But when you close your eyes

You wonder


Is this what they will remember you by?...

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