Poetica Poetry : Challenge #1
Greetings and welcome to Poetica Poetry Challenges… A few friends suggested I start a challenge group here, so here I am… I hope you enjoy the inspirational challenges I offer you.
Every week I will post 2 challenges, a not-so-hard-one and a more challenging theme. Feel free to do one or both. Post poetry on your page and tag Poetica Challenges and leave you Url in the comments below.
Most of all, have fun!
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Challenge #1
Inspiration Quote
Angels have no philosophy but love. Terri Guillemets
Where does this quote take you?
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Challenge #2
Wake Up Dreaming
If you could fall asleep and wake in your dream world… what would it look like? What would be happening? What would the people be like?
What about technology? Old? New? A mixture? None?
Where would you go… who would you visit?
Here is a chance to be totally off-the-wall with your writing…. anything goes!
A few inspirational prompts… to use as you wish….
utopia – (Ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects)
dystopian – (State in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation, oppression or terror)
multiverse –( cosmology) an ensemble of universes, each (apart from ours) causally disconnected from or unobservable by us)
empyrean – (Of or relating to the sky or heavens – The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected)
Chimerical – Produced by a wildly fanciful imagination
annwn- (Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies
empyrean- Of or relating to the sky or heavens- Inspiring awe
comic
future
facets
alternative
Posted on June 25, 2014, in challenge, Poetica, poetry and tagged challenges, inspiration, Poetica Challenges, poetry. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Poetica Challenges 
My poem for Challenge #1 Inspiration Quote
Divine Guidance
Forces beyond human control
Divine Providence
spiritual guidance
luck of the Irish
God
call it what you will
a urgent energy that lingers
in the subconscious soul
… hungers for the flavours
of celestial transcendence…
paradox of our times
that cosmic realisation
comes in cryptic
guise…
few know the pebbled paths of life all led
to one realisation… one ultimate destination
one mantra for all
equality
Angels have no philosophy but love
and brave is a man
who dares
to look the Devil in the face
and tell him he is a Devil, daemon of
the material world
My thoughts lay as
shattered shards of green glass
each answer tags a question
waiting to be asked
and answered in turn
But where are the definitive answers we all ask
… we all seek divine guidance
from places varied and vast…
… could it be the answer
lies in one’s heart.
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Sharonlee©
Challenge # 2
Chimerical Scenes
I woke from surreal cloudscape dream
to a déjà vu eerie and empyrean
a world unlike I’d ever seen
… except for in my whimsical dreams…
Chimerical scenes painted in pastel hues
merging shades of violet and midnight blue
visions in future facets of yet to be
annwn images of transcendental mythology…
a new world where my will was the only law
… a global peace not known before
a paradise of utopianism
composed in yin & yang…
across the earth barriers dissolved
as all races raised their voices
and in harmony….sang
time-warp-portals open at my touch…
… I bend hours to my command
transported over distances
to far off foreign lands…
no time zone stops my eagerness
no boarders bar my way
no outdated policies
chain the freedom of each day…
there is no rich or poor or hungry
no homeless walk the street
fruit trees grow on every corner
the air is fresh and sweet…
I dreamt I woke from cloudscape dream
to a surreal world chimerical and empyrean
a world unlike I’d ever seen
… except for in my whimsical dreams…
SharonleeGoodhand©