Writing prompt for issue 14.1

 

House amongst redwood trees, by Frank Schulenberg
House amongst redwood trees, by Frank Schulenberg

So, here’s the image we’ve chosen as a writing prompt for the upcoming issue 14.1: Spring in Cascade Canyon, Mill Valley, California, courtesy of ?photographer Frank Schulenburg. A place with a nearly fairy-tale flavor to help spark your imagination. ?We hope it inspires you to surprise yourself with a small poem you may not have written otherwise. We invite you to add your best efforts to our comment box below.

We’ll include the stand-out poem(s) in our forthcoming issue, tinywords 14.1, ?due out in early April.

Regular submissions will continue to be accepted at our submissions?page through Monday, March 3, 2014.

 

Time to get lost in the woods. The Redwoods.

Thanks,

The Editors

 

110 thoughts on “Writing prompt for issue 14.1”

  1. Charmed

    Up to the cottage, our getaway
    is inviting and quaint,
    an enchanting hideaway–
    up to the cottage. A getaway
    for time without complaint,
    to live without restraint.
    Up to the cottage, our getaway
    is inviting and quaint.

    ~Laurie Kolp

  2. So much nature carefully arranged
    around one expensive cottage.
    A sparrow singing further down the road.

  3. We found the house by chance
    drunk on stories of old times—
    taken aback by the puzzle-
    piece roof, lush secrecy
    behind fern and cobble
    glad for our imagination
    running, no, fleeing
    from our failed hunt for morels,
    morsels under fallen giants—
    Nature finding a way
    to give us something back,
    something new

  4. MATRYOSHKA

    Inside the fashionable garden is a cottage.
    Inside the fashionable cottage is a lady.
    Inside the fashionable lady is the best fashion.

  5. Home

    Born in a dream
    this stone cottage nested
    among the redwoods.

    Its window reflects
    sun on a tangle of foliage—
    green faery fire within.

    Older than we are, younger by far
    than the ancient ones around it,
    this dwelling calls us home.

  6. “forest fiesta”

    colorful fiesta of candy drops pervade
    logs of bread in a gentle spring oven
    by a pond of coconut juice
    bordering a stick of meandering green taffy

  7. just as he promised:
    the stone cottage at the end
    of a lush green lane . . .
    in such hidden spots we find
    what we scarcely dare to dream

  8. redwood forest
    birdsong nestling
    in the breeze

    beneath the redwoods
    I remember how
    to breathe

  9. these mighty redwoods
    guarding this gingerbread house
    with filtered sunbeams
    remembering that last walk
    the things she tried to give me

  10. enchanting cottage in photo—
    in childhood
    t’would be instantly mine

    ————————-
    #Comments: A stunningly beautiful photograph, inspiring so many feelings and ideas, I couldn’t fit them into a small poem. Appreciating one of the elements would be being unfair to the others.

    Then it struck me that I was looking at this photo as a grown-up adult; admiring the blossoms, the pond-well, the stone cottage, the grassy path etc.

    So I thought of looking at the photo from another angle. Had I been a child, I’d have looked at it as a whole. The entire wondrous scene would present as a delicious starting point of a fairy tale. Instantly, I would imagine myself ‘climbing into’ the photo, making this cottage and its surroundings ‘my own’ and setting forth on a fabulous adventure!

    The poem depicts that. The first line indicating that for an adult, it is only a photograph of an enchanting cottage. The second and third lines indicate my point of view as a child.

  11. today

    all the decades
    it waited for her
    and held a place
    for her old age
    Home

    and from my blogs

    five roads
    from this corner
    now I know
    my way home
    on them all

    home from mailing
    poetry notes
    monarch butterfly
    greets me
    at the back door

    Thank you

  12. Ferns as tall as the first turret
    The rhododendron appear but tiny
    And the hibiscus bloom as tho in the tropics

  13. I looked at this magical scene,and it did suggest fairy tales and serenity and peacefulness,but the path beguiled me, and my thoughts took in a different direction.
    your hidden cottage
    the garden path
    you led me down

  14. Stealthily she steps
    From dew blade green to leaf mold grey,
    Through tendril arcs of ivy
    From tree limbs trembling pendulant,
    Into the green engulfing wood.

  15. Stealthily she steps,
    From dew blade green to leaf mold grey,
    Through tendril arcs of ivy
    From tree limbs trembling pendulant,
    Into the green engulfing wood.

  16. ith sex, merely as it would be tough to tell a tale sprinkled

    with explicit sexual specific. In the very act of explaining sex as an incidental, you develop an excruciating sex scene.

  17. Wow, wonderful shots, your pepicertsve gives a great view and feeling of being small. SO sorry about your layoff, what a shock that would be.. hope you find another good job soon! Thank you for sharing on Weekly Top Shot #45!

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