theinkwell poetry challenge | Week 4 - All Writers Welcome!

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Welcome to Week 4 of The Ink Well's Summer Poetry Challenge. Each week you will be offered two prompts to start your creativity - you can use either prompt or both; you can include them in your poem or use them to get your thoughts going and see where they take you ... and never mention the prompts in your writing at all!

Everyone who meets the Rules for Entry will:

Receive 100% upvote from The Ink Well.
Be included in the draw for 500HP delegation for 7 days.
Have a chance to be a Show Case Post in future weeks.

Entries that meet the criteria will also be curated for a curie vote.
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How To Enter The Challenge

The Ink Well is about encouraging high quality creative writing. The challenge is open to everyone, whether you are an experienced writer or just starting your writing journey. Every week, there will be two fresh prompts to help you develop your writing skills.

Week 4 Prompts

Option 1: thorn
Option 2: the goat

You can use either prompt - or both - to create a poem. You can include the prompt in your poem, or use it as a jumping off point for your ideas.
_{The Fiction Challenge has the same prompts as the Poetry Challenge each week.

See all the prompts for the Summer Season.}

Rules of Entry

your entry must be posted in The Inkwell Community.
poetry must be a maximum of twenty lines, excluding the title.
include tags: #theinkwell #challenge #poetry.
title format: theinkwell poetry challenge | title of your work.
post a link in the comments of this post.

Remember, original work only - no plagiarism or re-posts!
Check the Curation Policies and Community Rules before you submit.
The deadline is when this post pays out on Monday 15 June 2020.

What We Are Looking For

The vision for The Ink Well is all about encouraging and rewarding high quality creative writing. We know that everyone has to start somewhere, and that your writing skills improve the more you write. To help you develop those skills, we've set out some categories that you will want to think about.

Poetry is the most complex literary form and spending between four and six hours developing and editing a poem over the course of a week would not be unusual for a well-crafted poem. This is the quality The Ink Well is looking for.

Category	Explanation
Voice and Setting	Who is speaking? Is it one or many voices? Where and when is the poem is set? How does this affect the poem?
Tone and themes	What mood or emotion does the poem create in the reader? What ideas is the poem expressing? How is that shown?
Structure	Has the writer chosen a poetic form? How does the form and rhythm (eg fast and breathless) affect the poem?
Style	The writer's use of words, imagery, metaphor and simile.
Presentation	Does the presentation and formating enhance the writing?

Any Questions?

If you have any questions, put them in a comment below.

Before We Go

Don't forget to read other people's entries and leave them a comment. The Ink Well will be searching for and tipping good comments!

We're looking forward to reading your poems!

@carolkeen, @jayna, @shanibeer and @stormlight24

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Poetry Inspiration

Altered Nature by Mary Jean Chan

This poem was written before the arrival of Covid-19 in the UK.

Altered Nature

The birds had their tongues tied to silver strings as they hung

mid-air in silence. I was kneeling on the wet earth, crying out.

A disembodied voice informed me that nectar was being slowly

harvested from their throats, that this was the only way. Heat

from their flailing bodies pressed my eyes into my skull. I tried

to hold myself together in the dream but could not. Once awake,

I could not feel tender. The brutality of all architecture stunned

me wherever I looked. What were we – as a species – doing?

I finally summoned the will to write Life on my to-do list but

kept postponing the task. I had been dreaming of the dying,

because I could not ignore the news from home, country not

so far from the heart. This viral uncertainty keeping me afraid

of intimacy. I did not want to touch what others had touched,

feared any public surface. Even the air was menacing, invisible

droplets omnipresent. A persistent cough soon developed, as if

to taunt me. My father, a rheumatologist, texts to say he is well,

reminds me that he went through the SARS epidemic and never

took a day off work. I have inherited this stubborn, Calvinist ethic.

Today, I return to where breath feels possible. My therapist asks

me: What do you want? I think to myself: mother’s gaze / straight gaze

/male gaze / white gaze… I am ashamed to confess that I want to

be reborn as the brother, the beloved son, the future patriarch.

I want to see this torso in a different light, beam on it a kinder

gaze as I wait for something to give. I read a poet’s words: Mostly,

we do not fail to go on living. There is fire on the streets of a city I still

love and fire in the earth’s lungs as the hour ticks on. Had I simply

imagined this intimate scene: the mother lying prostrate at the feet

of her child, begging for a miracle, or was it the other way around…

Mary Jean Chan at The Poetry Society

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marcybetancourt (69)Writing Prize Winner 4 years ago

Hi, my entry
https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@marcybetancourt/theinkwell-poetry-challenge-week-4-or-me-falto-valor-i-lacked-courage

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theinkwell (72) 4 years ago

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gracielaacevedo (68) 4 years ago

Hi, here's my entry:

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theinkwell (72) 4 years ago

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evagavilan (64) 4 years ago

Hi, my entry:
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theinkwell (72) 4 years ago

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oacevedo (67) 4 years ago

Here is my entry:
https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@oacevedo/theinkwell-poetry-challenge-week-4-under-god-s-olive-tree
Greetings, comrades.

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theinkwell (72) 4 years ago

thank you for your entry :)

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hlezama (73) 4 years ago (edited)

Happy Sunday, everyone.
First time on the inkwell.
Here's my entry to the challenge. Hope you enjoy it.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@hlezama/theinkwell-poetry-challenge-or-the-end-of-the-goat
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theinkwell (72) 4 years ago

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giftedwrites (47) 4 years ago

My entry

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theinkwell (72) 4 years ago

thank you for your entry :)

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iamraincrystal (74)Member of The Ink Well 4 years ago

Wow! So it has been four weeks... How time flies!

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@iamraincrystal/theinkwell-poetry-challenge-or-wakeful-dream

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theinkwell (72) 4 years ago

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adeyemidrey (65) 4 years ago

Here is my entry https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@adeyemidrey/the-ink-well-poetry-challenge-thorn-in-the-flesh

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theinkwell (72) 4 years ago

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rokhani (69) 4 years ago

Here my entry
theinkwell poetry challenge | Thorn within our heart
Thank for great idea, @theinkwell

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theinkwell (72) 4 years ago

thank you for your entry :)

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rokhani (69) 4 years ago

My pleasure

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jakim7 (70) 4 years ago (edited)

👉 Hello friends of @theinkwell continuation I share with all my entrance to the challenge of poetry of the week 4 📌, greetings and blessings from Venezuela...