Current Prompt
Write for 10 minutes without stopping. Your title is…
Perfume
We live in a world of objects: shoes, trees, a glass of milk. Our father’s reading glasses, our mother’s bathrobe. Some objects evoke strong feelings and memories. Some objects attract us for their beauty or convey a sense of a living presence.
Please take some time to reflect on the photograph above and consider the following writing prompts. When you are ready, write for ten minutes or longer without stopping. Let your imagination fly and be surprised by what you discover.
Does this image stir any memory?
What is the first object you remember?
Does this object have a backstory?
If this object could talk, what would it say?
Image courtesy of M.B.
Previous Prompt
Write for 10 minutes without stopping. Your title is…
Self-Portrait As Shoe
How do the objects in our lives reflect us? How do they show us aspects of ourselves that have gone hidden? The art of self-portraiture perhaps originated with the earliest cave painting smeared on limestone in ochre and blood.
What does this photo of cowboy boots evoke in you? Let your gaze wander over the collection or focus on a single pair. What story do they tell? Write a poem in the voice of a pair of boots.