Except For Love, Nothing Will Remain Forever ~ Rumi
Taking Over From A Flying Start
Hello Paper Poetry patrons,
Hope everything is fine in your part of the world 😊 Allow me to express a heartfelt thank you for your ravishing responses to the W1 and the W2 prompts. We are grateful for your time, creative collaboration, and showering your love. Your support and synergy are our raison d’être.
Let’s have a quick glance over the past week’s prompts.
W1: Inaugurating the Weekly paper Poetry Prompt in Paper Poetry, a Word prompt by Suntonu Bhadra. He threw a challenge, to write a poem on ‘Home’ in 25 words or less! You all eloquently epitomized that brevity is the soul of wit in your offerings. We bow down to y’all! 🙇 You can explore the W1 Prompt poems here.
W2: Off To A Flying Start, an Ekphrastic prompt by Carolyn Hastings. She enticed the writers to craft a poem based on a picture. The picture she presented was of three pigs with wings and, Oh My Gosh!, you creative people composed such beautiful poetry out of it. Each submission was phenomenal and we are in awe of you all. Hats off! 💂♀
Paper Poetry encourages you to read and support your fellow Paper Poetry patrons 🙌
- Hopes Take Flight — Wry Welwood
- Gumnut Babies — Carolyn Hastings
- Your Garden Pigs Cannot Fly — Raine Lore
- Wings — Dr. Fatima Imam
- The Winged Cutters Cannot Fly — Monoreena Acharjee
- Three More Pigs On a Wing — William J Spirdione
- Three Pink Tails — Toni Crowe
We have had a great two weeks of your exquisite craft and that has made us greedy. We crave for more!!
As Suntonu promised, every week we will offer a different flavor in prompts, so here I am, eager to lead you into another exciting prompt. Come, play along with us. 😊
👉 Poetry Prompt — A two week prompt to include the Valentine’s Day
February is here, Love is in the air ❤️and St. Valentine is knocking every tender heart to sing a song, write a poem for their sweetheart. To keep your spirits up for love and longing we have come up with an epigraphic prompt.
An epigraph is a quote, phrase, or paragraph that appears at the beginning of a write-up. Epigraphs are generally short quotations from an existing work. Epigraphs appear in quotation marks(“”) at the beginning of a text.
For this prompt the quote to be used as an epigraph is:
“Except for love, nothing you see will remain forever ~ Rumi”
All you have to do is use the quote as an epigraph at the start of your poem and compose a poem revolving around the gist of this quote.
Scribble, scrawl, inscribe, churn out a poem from the deep, vast ocean of love you have in your heart when you think of Except for love, nothing you see will remain forever.
Prompt details
Type: Epigraphic prompt (explained above)
Format: Make sure to use: 👉 the above quote before your text 👉 quotation marks around the quote
Form: poetry( any type), prose, short form
Theme: Love
Line Limit: limitless, claim your creative liberties
Kicker: Valentine’s at Paper Poetry[Optional]
Tags: W3 Prompt, Epigraphic Poem
Image: One image only; must incorporate a handwritten/handcrafted element following Paper Poetry’s submission guidelines. For example, a handwritten portion of the poem, a decorative title, an illustrated version of the photo prompt. A screenshot of the photo prompt or part thereof can be used but it must be accompanied by the writer’s handiwork.
Submission Period: 1st Feb — 15th Feb. This is a 2-week prompt to include Valentine’s Day.
Do’s and Do not’s: Please do not add any explanatory note or information after the poems.
You may tag other writers into the prompt, a story link to the prompt and your email/Medium sign-ups.
We are lovingly excited to read your expression on the above quote.
Happy Valentine’s! Thank you for reading.
