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Thursday Prompt #1: Boxes

May 5, 2010
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Welcome to our very first Thursday Prompt! To start us off, I’d like you to write about boxes, ordinary objects that we all come in regular contact with yet probably don’t think very much about. We all have them in our homes: shoe boxes, refrigerator boxes, cereal boxes, to name just a few. Find a box in your home and write about its contents, or take a different angle and write about an empty box. With this prompt, take the time to deepen your understanding of boxes. What significant meaning do they hold for you? What special items do you keep in boxes? Do you have a particular memory associated with boxes? Spend the week working with the prompt, and next Wednesday I will post asking you to leave the poems you wrote during the week in the comments. You can either leave the poem itself or a link to the poem on your blog.

Happy poeming!

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19 Comments
  1. Melanie Bishop permalink
    May 8, 2010 7:07 am

    Here is my poem.

    my poem

    Melanie

    • Mallery permalink
      May 9, 2010 1:25 am

      Thanks Melanie,

      Be sure to come back on Wednesday and link to your poem in the comments of my “Post Your Poems” post!

      Best,
      Mallery

    • Mallery permalink
      May 12, 2010 5:17 am

      Hi Melanie,

      You do it the same way you linked to your poem in the comments here, but you do it on the most recent post I made: It’s Post Your Poems Day

  2. heartspell permalink
    May 8, 2010 12:03 pm

    I will post my poem on Boxes on my blog, Wednesday and try to link it to here. Thank you for the fun! Best, Heartspell

  3. rob kistner permalink
    May 9, 2010 3:15 am

    Her is my piece: Boxes — Contemplation in 3 Parts

    • Mallery permalink
      May 9, 2010 3:42 am

      Hi Rob, Glad the prompt inspired you to write! I’ll wait ’til Wednesday to read it. Remember to come back then to post your poem’s link on the “Post Your Poems” post.

      -Mallery

  4. Dan Rako permalink
    May 10, 2010 12:25 pm

    Boxes

  5. pamela permalink
    May 10, 2010 1:16 pm

    Here is mine: Thanks for the prompt.

    http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/05/your-box-we-write-poems-prompt-1-boxes.html

  6. Uma Gowrishankar permalink
    May 11, 2010 7:22 am

    Here is my poem – http://umaathreya.blogsome.com/2010/05/11/my-grandfathers-stepmom/
    Will come back again on wednesday to post the link.

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