Thanks everyone for spending time with us during this holiday season. For those who celebrate Happy Hanukkah and for everyone else, I hope your day is filled with happiness.
Today’s poetry prompt is about the holidays. Let’s start this season with a bang. Take a holiday memory and write a poem about it from an outside observer’s perceptions. Choose any holiday and any kind of memory whether it’s near and dear to your heart or totally inconsequential.
It’s getting so close to Halloween! Let’s do a Halloween themed poetry prompt.
Think of a day. A bad day. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a devastating day that caused you to not leave your house for weeks, but you can get that dark if you like. One that you haven’t quite gotten over yet. Take that day and personify him into some type of ghoul. A monster. A horrible creature.
Avenge yourself against this bad day! And the put the bad thing to rest.
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Have fun with this! Don’t forget to backlink to this post so we can check out your writing. Or you can post the poem in the comment section as well.
Can’t wait to read your words!
Don’t forget our first poetry collection, The Reverie Journal Issue One will make its debut this Friday!
Part of what we do here at The Reverie Journal is to tell you about opportunities to share your work. Of course, we certainly hope you’ll still consider submitting with us for our Write for Us. Submissions for the magazine and anthology are currently closed.
Today we’re introducing you to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. They welcome short stories, mystery verses and limmricks from new and established writers. They publish the gamut mystery short story. For more on submission guidelines read here.
Contact:
Jackie Sherbow, assistant editor
Email: elleryqueenmm@dellmagazines.com
Publishing Opportunities are compiled from information gathered in the 2015 Poet’s Market.
The wind howls like a wild beast
And then vanishes into the distance
The walls moan and weeze
Offering little resistance
To the cold bite and the shivering spite of the midnight’s tempest crying
The shadows of candle light
Gather and dance upon the ceiling
Snowflakes watch us at the window sill
Crouched around the fire kneeling
As the frigid air creates our despair, we stare and watch the embers slowly dying
Moonlight has crept though the door
Despair drops like the cold to te floor
Our temptations can be felt more and more
Of that there can be no denying
Fate’s whisper entices the room
As we’re slowly drawn together
Destiny’s hymn is calling
And drowns out the raging weather
But the rapid sense of this truly intense feeling has sent us crawling toward desire
Under a veil of silence
Tension crumbles into ashes
The calm of the evening
Makes it return while the storm passes
Now all is done except for all that can be kept: which is nothing but what is left for us to inspire
The snowflakes are silent; the shadows no longer dance
The spark for each other we hold in our trembling hands
Our nervous eyes meet in a sideways glance
As they glow from the dimly lit fire
Romance is falling
And cascades over us like soft rain
Our twisted silence
Takes a bow before the refrain
And in disguise, hidden behind our eyes, our heart’s beat, echo, and cry with all their might
The fever between us
Rises slow with each breath we take
In an unbroken stare
Our eyes speak thoughts that we can’t retake
With the last dying ember, on a night that we shouldn’t remember, we surrender our restraint for the call we hear deep inside
Passion takes owe temptation’s place
Our lips slowly meet in a log soft embrace
Our eyes are locked our fingers are laced
On this quiet cold cold December night
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By Marshall Hanlon, no bio included.
Creative Commons
Milestones come in all shapes in sizes. We here at The Reverie just celebrated our first birthday! That was certainly an exciting and happy milestone to celebrate.
But sometimes our anniversary dates aren’t so happy. Sometimes we remember dates that are connected to painful moments in our lives. It’s an anniversary of emotion and that’s what we want to see from you this week.
Think about a date that you go back to, one that’s connected to some pretty strong emotions (they can be good, or bad, of a heady mix of the two). Take us back to that date, give us a flashback, make us feel it.
Don’t forget to pingback to this post so we can check out your writing. Or you can post the poem in the comment section as well.
If you have any suggestions for a future prompt, email us at thereveriejournal@gmail.com with subject : Monday Prompts. If we use it, we’ll thank you in the post, so make sure to send your blog address, Twitter, or something that we can refer people to as a thank you.
Let’s write a poem this week that is based on emotions and the weather. Pick an emotion and a bit of weather to reflect it (like rain for feeling sad). Be creative. Do what you will.
Don’t forget to backlink to this post so we can check out your writing. Or you can post the poem in the comment section as well.
If you have any suggestions for a future prompt, email us at thereveriejournal@gmail.com with subject : Monday Prompts. If we use it, we’ll thank you in the post, so make sure to send your blog address, Twitter, or something that we can refer people to as a thank you.
Alright y’all, hope you had a great weekend and happy writing!
Just in case I gave you an earworm with the title:
Get inspired by a song. Music and poetry are so related, let’s see if you can write something inspired by music.
Listen to a song, it must be something that elicits strong emotion from you. Maybe your favorite song that feels you with happiness–or a song that you love to hate. Listen to it a couple times with your eyes closed, really enmesh yourself in the emotion.
Then let your pen fly across the page. (or hands-keyboard, you get it. ) Either write it in your blog or in the comments section here. Be sure to let us know what the song is and how it makes you feel.
Since I’m horribly nerdy, and I try to see where people are coming from, I’ll probably listen to the songs while I read your work. (But that’s just me.)
Don’t forget to link it back here to this post.
If you have any suggestions for a future prompt, email us at thereveriejournal@gmail.com with subject : Monday Prompts. If we use it, we’ll thank you in the post, so make sure to send your blog address, Twitter, or something that we can refer people to as a thank you.
Alright y’all, hope you had a great weekend and happy writing!
The Reverie 