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  1. W3 Prompt #220: Wea’ve Written Weekly

    Intro

    Dear friends,

    Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish.

    You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version:

    Part I

    The main ingredient of W3 is a weekly poem written by a Poet of the Week (PoW), which participants read before participating in the prompt.

    Part II

    The second ingredient is a writing guideline (or two) provided by the PoW. Guidelines may include, but are not limited to: word counts, poetic forms, inclusion of specific words, and use of particular poetic devices.

    Part III

    After five days, when the prompt closes, the PoW shall select one participant’s poem as the W3 prompt for the following week, and its author becomes the next PoW.

    Simple enough, right?

    Kindly note: All entries for the W3 poetry prompt must be the original work of the submitting author. AI-generated poetry is not permitted.

    Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing!

    I. The prompt poem:

    ‘Slant’ by Jaideep Khanduja

    I’m doing great – that’s what I always tell
    people, smoothing my face over all
    the cracks, rehearsing calm until the
    performance gets mistaken for truth.
    My hands don’t shake, my voice stays even, but
    that’s only the version I let myself tell.
    Underneath it all, quietly, I miss you. I feel it
    even now, though I keep bending the truth, keep leaning slant.

    II. Jaideep’s prompt: Heritage-Tech Fusion

    The Challenge

    Write one three-line poem that brings together a cultural tradition and modern technology.

    Your poem can be playful, thoughtful, imaginative, or personal. Each line may contain any number of syllables, so feel free to follow your own natural rhythm.

    Structure

    • Line 1: Mention something traditional from your culture, such as a craft, art form, festival, song, food, or dance.
    • Line 2: Connect that tradition with technology, such as AI, an app, a digital tool, a virtual space, or a smart device.
    • Line 3: Show how the tradition and technology can work together, inspire one another, or create something new.

    Most importantly, enjoy exploring how the past and the future can meet in just three lines.

    Example

    Pottery hands shape ancient clay
    AI learns patterns from grandmother’s designs
    Digital vessels tell new stories

    III. Submit: Click on ‘Mister Linky’ below

    In order to participate and share a poem, open up this blog post, outside of the WordPress reader. At the bottom, just below these words, you will see a small rectangular graphic with the words ‘Mr Linky’. Click on that to submit.

    Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, July 20, 10:00 AM (GMT+2)

    Last week’s W3 poem

    This week’s W3 prompt poem (above), composed by Jaideep, was written in response to last week’s W3 prompt poem, which Jodi wrote:

    ‘Freedom’ by Violet Lentz

    at fifteen
    i didn’t question
    your packing up my life
    in a garbage bag
    and sending me to gramma’s
    i wanted my freedom
    i saw being sent away
    as you giving it to me
    i thought i had won
    
    at twenty five
    i didn’t question
    abandoning my marriage
    and two children
    to recapture the freedom
    i perceived
    as having been stolen from me
    surely the end
    would justify the means
    
    at thirty five
    i didn’t question
    getting clean
    i knew it was
    either quit- or die
    so i quit- because
    too much freedom
    had in the end
    taken me hostage
    
    at forty five
    i looked into
    the eyes of a woman
    i had never seen before
    she told me:
    
    that fifteen year olds
    don’t get garbage bags
    full of freedom
    
    that twenty five year olds
    can disappear- but
    never really leave-
    (their children behind)
    
    that thirty five year olds
    never really get clean,,
    they just quit using….
    
    and that the only way
    to ever really catch freedom
    is to stop running…
    #Community #CreativeWriting #Culture #Inspiration #Micropoetry #Poem #Poetry #Prompt #Technology #W3
  2. W3 Prompt #220: Wea’ve Written Weekly

    Intro

    Dear friends,

    Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish.

    You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version:

    Part I

    The main ingredient of W3 is a weekly poem written by a Poet of the Week (PoW), which participants read before participating in the prompt.

    Part II

    The second ingredient is a writing guideline (or two) provided by the PoW. Guidelines may include, but are not limited to: word counts, poetic forms, inclusion of specific words, and use of particular poetic devices.

    Part III

    After five days, when the prompt closes, the PoW shall select one participant’s poem as the W3 prompt for the following week, and its author becomes the next PoW.

    Simple enough, right?

    Kindly note: All entries for the W3 poetry prompt must be the original work of the submitting author. AI-generated poetry is not permitted.

    Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing!

    I. The prompt poem:

    ‘Slant’ by Jaideep Khanduja

    I’m doing great – that’s what I always tell
    people, smoothing my face over all
    the cracks, rehearsing calm until the
    performance gets mistaken for truth.
    My hands don’t shake, my voice stays even, but
    that’s only the version I let myself tell.
    Underneath it all, quietly, I miss you. I feel it
    even now, though I keep bending the truth, keep leaning slant.

    II. Jaideep’s prompt: Heritage-Tech Fusion

    The Challenge

    Write one three-line poem that brings together a cultural tradition and modern technology.

    Your poem can be playful, thoughtful, imaginative, or personal. Each line may contain any number of syllables, so feel free to follow your own natural rhythm.

    Structure

    • Line 1: Mention something traditional from your culture, such as a craft, art form, festival, song, food, or dance.
    • Line 2: Connect that tradition with technology, such as AI, an app, a digital tool, a virtual space, or a smart device.
    • Line 3: Show how the tradition and technology can work together, inspire one another, or create something new.

    Most importantly, enjoy exploring how the past and the future can meet in just three lines.

    Example

    Pottery hands shape ancient clay
    AI learns patterns from grandmother’s designs
    Digital vessels tell new stories

    III. Submit: Click on ‘Mister Linky’ below

    In order to participate and share a poem, open up this blog post, outside of the WordPress reader. At the bottom, just below these words, you will see a small rectangular graphic with the words ‘Mr Linky’. Click on that to submit.

    Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, July 20, 10:00 AM (GMT+2)

    Last week’s W3 poem

    This week’s W3 prompt poem (above), composed by Jaideep, was written in response to last week’s W3 prompt poem, which Jodi wrote:

    ‘Freedom’ by Violet Lentz

    at fifteen
    i didn’t question
    your packing up my life
    in a garbage bag
    and sending me to gramma’s
    i wanted my freedom
    i saw being sent away
    as you giving it to me
    i thought i had won
    
    at twenty five
    i didn’t question
    abandoning my marriage
    and two children
    to recapture the freedom
    i perceived
    as having been stolen from me
    surely the end
    would justify the means
    
    at thirty five
    i didn’t question
    getting clean
    i knew it was
    either quit- or die
    so i quit- because
    too much freedom
    had in the end
    taken me hostage
    
    at forty five
    i looked into
    the eyes of a woman
    i had never seen before
    she told me:
    
    that fifteen year olds
    don’t get garbage bags
    full of freedom
    
    that twenty five year olds
    can disappear- but
    never really leave-
    (their children behind)
    
    that thirty five year olds
    never really get clean,,
    they just quit using….
    
    and that the only way
    to ever really catch freedom
    is to stop running…
    #Community #CreativeWriting #Culture #Inspiration #Micropoetry #Poem #Poetry #Prompt #Technology #W3
  3. things that you want to do
    and things that you get into
    things that you wanted to
    and things that you didn’t do

    #writing #poetry #poem #poet #CreativeWriting

  4. things that you want to do
    and things that you get into
    things that you wanted to
    and things that you didn’t do

    #writing #poetry #poem #poet #CreativeWriting