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Prompt #42, It’s Post Your Poems Day!

February 23, 2011
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Safe Place

Were the seas a little rough, either real or imagined? Did you decide just precisely what a “safe place” means to you? Was it there for you while you wrote your poem to share with us? Perhaps an alternative came to your mind, and you imagined a safe place for someone other than yourself, a shipwrecked sailor, a child lost on the streets of a city, someone homeless and alone? Now is the time for good and kind poets here to respond. Share with us please, your result.

Don’t have a poem yet? Perhaps read a few done by others here, be inspired. There’s still plenty of time to discover a poem for yourself!

Leave the links to your poems in the comments of this post, then go visit your fellow writers’ sites and read their work. Remember to leave only positive comments in the spirit of sharing and not critiquing. We look forward to reading your poems!

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Please remember to include a link with your blog poem post that links right back to here, this “Post Your Poems Day”, so that others reading your poem can also share in this community poem experience – maybe even someone new to We Write Poems!

If you are new to WWP, please be welcome to look around and read. The full prompt description you can find under “Recent Posts” on the top right of our page.

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41 Comments
  1. b permalink
    February 23, 2011 12:09 am

    I found a bank for my safe place

  2. Madeleine Begun Kane permalink
    February 23, 2011 12:15 am

    Thanks very much for inspiring the first haiku in my Out on a Limb Haiku Quintet.

  3. Flying Monkey permalink
    February 23, 2011 12:16 am

    Thanks for the prompt. Here’s mine:
    http://flyingmonkey23.blogspot.com/2011/02/safe-place-inspired-by-we-write-poems.html

    • Mariya Koleva permalink
      February 23, 2011 4:01 am

      Oh, I can’t comment on your blog, because it won’t let me do it with Name/URL, so I’ll say it here:
      Such a brilliant way of putting it. So light the wording, yet so consistent. I liked the poem a lot.

  4. Irene permalink*
    February 23, 2011 12:26 am

    Boohoo I don’t have a poem yet! Think think… no I’m not writing about the thunderstorm outside my window and wondering if my kids are safe coming home.

  5. poetrydiary permalink
    February 23, 2011 12:43 am

    Mine is also a haiku, experimentally, and about a child’s sense of safety.

    Haiku – the end of the day

  6. neil reid permalink
    February 23, 2011 1:35 am

    They say it may snow tonight. Is there a safe place afterall? (and no comparison, you who are feet deep in it… )

    Avila

  7. Danny Earl Simmons permalink
    February 23, 2011 2:24 am

    Pumpkin Pie
    http://dannyearlsimmons.blogspot.com/2010/10/pumpkin-pie-acrostic.html

  8. gautami tripathy permalink
    February 23, 2011 3:46 am

    I found it in a word photograph:

    http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2011/02/captured-memories.html

  9. Mariya Koleva permalink
    February 23, 2011 3:47 am

    Mine turned out yet another of my “and then again…” poems. Here it is:
    http://phoenix-em.com/mariyakoleva/2011/02/a-safe-place-after-wwp/

  10. Mary permalink
    February 23, 2011 4:11 am

    I am not sure there IS a safe place:

    http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2011/02/safety.html

    • Irene permalink*
      February 23, 2011 6:07 am

      Me too.

  11. Rene Foran permalink
    February 23, 2011 4:40 am

    sometimes, what we thought to be a safe place gets rocked
    and we need to be strong

    http://nottherockefellers.blogspot.com/2011/02/christchurch.html

    • Flying Monkey permalink
      February 23, 2011 11:22 am

      I couldn’t comment on your blog but just wanted to say what a beautiful poem you wrote about such a sad event.

  12. Joseph Harker permalink
    February 23, 2011 5:57 am

    My safe place: William Henry House

  13. ravenswingpoetry permalink
    February 23, 2011 6:01 am

    This week, I tried to find The Way Back Home

    -Nicole

  14. Irene permalink*
    February 23, 2011 6:07 am

    It turned out more philosophical than I expected.

    dissection

  15. Marian Veverka permalink
    February 23, 2011 6:07 am

    My safe place “Kitchen”” can be found at

    http://Marianv.blob.co.ik

  16. 1sojournal permalink
    February 23, 2011 7:04 am

    Not sure about this one:

    Safe Place?

    Elizabeth

  17. pamela permalink
    February 23, 2011 7:49 am

    Still working on mine, argh!

  18. RJ Clarken permalink
    February 23, 2011 8:36 am

    It’s a collection of safe subjects!

    http://1ightverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/yes-we-have-no-bananas-but-were-bananas.html

    Thanks!

  19. pamela permalink
    February 23, 2011 9:11 am

    I liked the prompt, it was challenging.
    My title stinks, but that is something to
    be dealt with another time.

    http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2011/02/safety-we-write-poems-42-safe-place.html

  20. vivinfrance permalink
    February 23, 2011 9:45 am

    Late today, I’ve been struggling. http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/safety-for-we-write-poems/

    I’ll be back to read later.

  21. redroom10 permalink
    February 23, 2011 3:28 pm

    Well, my first time here..hope you like

    The Vampires Sanctum – Haiku

  22. Wayne permalink
    February 23, 2011 4:31 pm

    mine can be found at
    http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com/2011/02/safe-place.html

  23. ms pie permalink
    February 23, 2011 6:37 pm

    a wonderful prompt glad i was able to participate… visible the invisible

  24. rob kistner permalink
    February 24, 2011 6:15 pm

    Sooth

  25. redchair permalink
    February 24, 2011 6:17 pm

    Breakthrough

  26. Judy Roney permalink
    February 25, 2011 9:24 am

    http://judyidliketosay.blogspot.com/2011/02/skywriters.html Safe place to land.

  27. Sharp Little Pencil permalink
    February 25, 2011 12:02 pm

    So many havens, so many memories… taking a break from protesting on behalf of public workers in Madison to answer this call…

    http://sharplittlepencil.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/safe-havens-wwp/

    SOLIDARITY FOREVER. The unions make us strong. Amy

  28. Peggy Goetz permalink
    February 25, 2011 1:35 pm

    It is hard for me to remember to return so many days after the prompt is given as I am trying to write every day but here is my response to a safe place. And I hope I am not posting it for a second time. LOL I have enjoyed everyone’s work that I have read here.
    http://ponderingspeggy.blogspot.com/2011/02/poem-safe-place.html

  29. Ron. permalink
    February 25, 2011 5:04 pm

    Song Of The Crystal at Scrambled, Not Fried

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