Prompt for Sept. 24, 2014
“Freedom’s a pattern.”
-Richard Wilbur
Free life
All these chains
wrap hands and feet
link by link by link
and she can name them all
A father who left and never came back
A need to prove she was worth
the coming back
An inability o admit wrong because of
the way it shone light on something dark inside
She stacked her walls around them
so she didn’t even have to move
They were too heavy to move, anyway
And then one day she cleaned her clothes
and broke free of dirt
And the next day she wore new shoes
and noticed all those chains
that tripped her through the years
And the day after that she lifted hands
locked tight with metal
It took work, so much work
because they were heavy
and there was no one
to help carry the load
But she shook the shackles
and whirled in the wind of memory
and wrote about it all
so it lifted her up, over the wall
to the other side
where freedom waited
She pointed her feet his way
and chose one day, two, three
all the rest of them
to live in the scar-wounds
of new life
good life
free life
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Welcome to The Ink Well Creative Community.
This idea was adapted from Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Fridays. Being a creative writer, I needed just a little more time than five minutes, so I decided to tweak and begin my own community for creative writers.
How It Works:
Life can get crazy, making consistent writing and creating a difficult-to-attain dream. But 15 minutes a week isn’t too much to ask in the name of creativity.
Every Wednesday at 10 a.m. CST, I will post a word/quote, either by itself or with other parameters (like a specific word count or a word that must be used somewhere in the piece). Your challenge is to expand on the word/quote, writing for 15 minutes without stopping. You can write a short essay, a poem, a story or whatever you feel would best express what you want to say.
Once you’ve written your piece, come back here and comment with either a link to your (mostly unedited) work or, if you don’t have a blog, post your entire piece in the comments section.
The only rule for participation: Visit the link (or read the piece) of the person who posted before you and encourage them in their writing. This is how we learn from one another and build relationships and become a supportive creative writing community that offers each individual’s unique beauty to the world.
If you don’t think you’re a creative writer: We are all of us creative, and we are all of us writers, which means we are all of us creative writers. If you feel like you don’t belong here, please let us show you that you do. You are a creative writer.
I hope you’ll join us!
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