Several years ago my writing bug was spurred by a meetup group called Writer's Kickstart which meets in Snohomish, WA. They handed out prompts to write from and managed to get my creative juices flowing. I will share the first prompts responses I wrote. Kudos to the group and its leaders for motivating.
Here are the prompts:
A Touching Color
A Writer's Itch
Pegs, Holes and Hammers
Here are the poems:
A Touching Color
Blue is a cooling color
Which should be very nice.
But when it touches the soul
It's like fingers of ice.
Red is a warming color,
A rose in full blush,
But when it touches the soul
It's an angry, fiery rush.
Yellow is warm and glowing,
A visual wealth of cheer,
But when it touches the soul
It's cowardice and fear.
Purple is quite regal,
An ermine edged cloak,
But in prose it is the straw
Which camel's back broke.
Green is a soothing color
Quiet, serene,
But when it touches the soul
Envy's eye is seen.
Orange is rather warm
But also quite serene,
But touches the soul
With the terror of Halloween.
So when I think of color
Tis a feast for the eye
But a touching color
I sooner would deny.
A Writer's Itch
There is no worse malady,
No more annoying bitch
Than to have words elude you
When you have a writer's itch.
For the nasty discomfort
That swells in the mind
Must in proper verbiage
It's sole relief find.
For in the cerebral cortex
Is a devil with a feather
Causing you to doubt,
Do I use rather or whither?
So if you get this itch
Have a dictionary near
Lest you go bald scratching
That spot behind your ear.
Pegs, Holes and Hammers
People don't always do
What you wish they would
They won't fit the pattern
And aggravate you good.
They won't meet your need
In moral, manner, grammar.
No matter what your arguments
Or how big is your hammer.
Kid's Game
Kaleidoscopic color touched me
A shattered rainbow on my skin.
A writer's itch pervaded me
But where would I begin.