LET’S GO MUSICAL AT PAPER POETRY
Music Of Your Subconscious
Feel it
Hello Paper Poetry friends,
Music is the vibration of cosmic energy, and therefore a universal language. We all are connected in this cosmos and therefore the music which stirs your heart, touches some chord, somewhere, miles away, in someone unknown, unseen to you. Such is the power of music. It is an invisible anchor.
Paper Poetry is drenched in the musical prompts of Week16 and Week 17. As I sit down to prepare another prompt, my subconscious is hymning the tunes compiled by your poems in Carolyn Hastings’ prompt, Candle in the wind.
Dear all, let’s rejoice in the symphony of Sir Elton John’s ‘Candle In The Wind’ in our poets’ renditions:
🎼Can’t Snuff This Candle Out! ~ Carolyn Hastings
🎼A Wobble Ball Wish ~ Jaylee Reign
🎼Your Ice-cold Heart ~ Raine Lore
🎼A Temporary Presence Can Still Be Elegant ~ Suntonu Bhadra
🎼Wish, Miss Turkey: A Story Untold ~ Doa Demir
Thank you Carolyn, Jaylee, Toni, Raine, Suntonu, Doa for lighting the candle for us. May you always shine!
Music in itself is a complete whole, we are just parts of it, trying to find solace in the part our heart echoes with. Music does not depend on any worldly faculty to prove itself.
The greatest example is Beethoven, the legendary composer. He started having hearing difficulties around late 30’s and was rendered completely deaf by the age of 44.
Beethoven continued to compose music, entirely by the sounds of his imagination in complete deafness. Such is the power of music of subconscious!
Poetry Prompt Week 18
Well, this leads us to another musical prompt. Yes, it is about the music you hear in your subconscious! The music you hear when you are detached from this world!
We do not wish to come out of the musical melody. So, let’s tune in to our subconscious minds and compose our music.
Let’s get rolling!
Prompt details
Prompt: What is the music of your subconscious?
Write something you hear when you are detached from this world — what do you hear in your subconscious? Is it the sound of the waves of tranquility? or the sound of your longing for someone/something? or the everyday rigamarole? or the chirping of birds, fluttering of leaves? Anything! We insist you hear the music of your subconscious mind, release it on paper and share it with us. Trust me! It would be a watershed moment for everyone listening to your music.
Form: your choice of poetry
Word limit: unlimited, let your creative juices flow. Tune in to your subconscious.
Theme: your choice
Title/subtitle/kicker: please use ‘Let’s Go Musical at Paper Poetry’ as the kicker; your choice of title and subtitle
Tags: please use ‘W18 Prompt’ and ‘Music of subconscious’ tags when submitting your poem
Image: one image only Please note: your image must incorporate a handwritten/handcrafted element in either paper or digital format in accordance with Paper Poetry’s submission guidelines. For example: a handwritten portion of the poem, a decorative title, an illustration that depicts an aspect of your poem, a digitally altered or embellished free-to-use image.
Extensions: Please also include a promotional link to this prompt and invite (handle tag) up to five other writers to join the prompt. Our weekly prompts are all about showcasing your poetry, so we kindly ask that you limit explanatory notes, backstories, etc. to a minimum.
Submission period: Saturday, June 25 (UTC-10hrs, the Cook Islands 12:00am) — closing Friday, July 1st (UTC-10hrs, Cook Islands 11:59 pm)
New writers are always most welcome to join our prompts. In fact, please do! Simply leave a comment below requesting to be added as a writer and we will attend to the rest. Alternatively, email us at [email protected]
The next weekly poetry prompt announcement will be on July 2nd (UTC-10hrs, the Cook Islands 12:00am)
PS: While writing this I asked my daughter, ‘What music do you hear in your mind when you close your eyes?’ She said, “Mama 🎵 Mama 🎵”, that, my dear friends, is my music. ❤️
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