Can we talk about the weather? Isn’t that the common fallback topic, especially when you’re chatting with strangers. The weather: the small talk staple.
Here at The Reverie Journal, we want you to take the mundane, the ordinary and make it sublime. How can you talk about the weather in an interesting way? Is it a metaphor for your life? Does the wind speak to your very essence? Tell us all about it.
Here are some ideas to get you started. Use the words and the picture as inspiration!
Word Prompt: weather
Other choices:
blizzard
freeze
raw
fierce
threatening
blustery
uninhibited
flood
Good luck and have fun!
And have you considered submitting to our Write for Us segment? We’d love to feature your work here on The Reverie! Click here for more information…
Remember, all entries must be linked back to this post with a pingback or by commenting by Friday at midnight EST. Saturday is the vote and Sunday the winner will be featured. The winner is also entered for a place in the spring edition of our magazine.
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Great prompt Tamara! I have some ideas swirling like the wind 🙂 in my head that hopefully I will be able to get down on paper.
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Excellent! I can’t wait to see what you come up with Mark.
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http://shilyot.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/icy-heart/ It’s taken a seasonal change from Autumn to Winter, and a trawl through my photos to come up with a response to the prompt! Brrrrr
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Ooooh…shiver me timbers! (Sorry, too much coffee.) I’m so intrigued. Can’t wait to read it.
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The link is attached to my comment!
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I was looking via my site and it didn’t show me the link. I’ll swing by. Definitely.
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Who needs coffee to get the shivers!
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http://pushingourlimits.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/winter/
Not sure why I’m so cold today, but this prompt inspired me greatly!!! 😉
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Reblogged this on Laura A. Lord and commented:
Check out the new prompt over at The Reverie Journal!
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[…] This poem was written in response to the prompt – weather on The Reverie Journal […]
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[…] post is in response to this weeks prompt on The Reverie to write about the weather. A thousand ideas have been swirling through my mind like a howling […]
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http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/85072162-couple-walk-along-snowy-path-in-fog-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=0M2sUkzhVmn5oILVLXuS1WQN17vjcyt2PiUrkKNaQ98%3D
A Walk in the Snow
As we stroll beneath
Black empty branches
Our path crosses another
The other was us, in a warmer time
No longer quite so sublime
We have wandered, gone astray
Closed out all of them,
Self centered they say
Now that winter
Has engulfed us
Wrapped our spirits tight
Snow is aglinter
Sparkly bright
Unlike our mood
Just a tad bleak
So we tarry a bit
Along the creek
Before we make our stride
I notice your rosy cheeks
Snow squeaks as we take the bend
The trail gliding
Beneath our feet
Until we arrive at our end
Before us lies the icy sheet
Stretched across the pond
We hold our hands and our breath
Then walk on to the ice
One step follows another
As we march toward death
The first creak is eerie
The second is a bother
Next a loud crack
Our hands grip tighter
No turning back
Two more steps
Should be all we need
Till we quench our thirst
With cold, black water
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Here in the highlands a Blackwater Creek runs through black soil brigalow country, it never freezes over, but that’s the tropics. I hear crossing ice of many watercourses gets a little risky, but I love how you open the poem and it travels, taking a reader somewhere and placing the sounds and atmosphere inside our heads, well explored.
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Hey guys check out my new poem.. 🙂 https://franzical.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/why-so-cold/
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[…] we get to read all the fantastic work by the poets in our community and vote on our favorites! This week’s prompt got us into the mood for some chilly […]
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