Photo by Andrew Belliveau
Speak of sea turtles
And toes digging in the sand,
Keeping to the script.
Putting Words in My Mouth
05 Jan 2013 12 Comments
in Haiku/Senryu/17 Syllables, Poetry, Word Prompt Tags: Andrew Belliveau, Lee Blessing, Poetry, Sarah Bankard, script, Two Rooms
Jan 05, 2013 @ 15:42:11
Very clever, I was stumped by this prompt!
Jan 05, 2013 @ 18:40:45
Thank you! As an actor, I really enjoyed this prompt. Your post was wonderful!
Jan 05, 2013 @ 21:48:28
Nice one wordcoaster. Watch those toe nibbling turtles
Jan 06, 2013 @ 19:57:07
Thank you! Haha, I will
Jan 06, 2013 @ 14:53:41
reread a few times, and couldn’t grasp anything….but liked it anyhow…
Jan 06, 2013 @ 20:08:13
Aw, thank you! Sorry this one was much vaguer than usual as it was referencing a play I’m preparing to be in. It’s sometimes frustrating to memorize monologues (or, if your memory’s bad like mine to memorize anything) because the wording is foreign, and often it takes some time to make the order feel natural. Also the character in this particular play (Two Rooms by the talented Lee Blessing) often speaks in stream-of-consciousness monologues. (In one monologue he references his wife’s toes digging in the sand and that launches him onto a tangential metaphor about sea turtles.) It happens to be particularly difficult to follow someone else’s thought process.
Jan 07, 2013 @ 11:56:53
Clever and unique take on the prompt
Jan 07, 2013 @ 19:05:50
Thank you! This was quite an unexpected and unusual prompt, but I enjoyed it very much
Jan 07, 2013 @ 22:14:09
Nice take on this prompt! love the image of toes digging in the sand.
Jan 07, 2013 @ 22:51:32
Thank you! Enjoyed your unconventional take on the prompt as well
Jan 08, 2013 @ 21:31:25
Good job with the prompt. You made it look easy.
Alice
Jan 08, 2013 @ 22:56:09
Thank you so much! I never thought I’d write so many haiku, but as you know they can be fairly addictive