Result from the Let the Dice Choose prompt: Impatience
Impatiently waiting
Watching the clock tick down
Constantly Refreshing
Ready for that moment you name lights up my phone
Impatiently waiting
Dying to hear your sweet dulcet tones
See that beautiful smile
With eyes soo sweet
Making my heart beat, beat, beat,
Spoken Word Poem resulting from Let the Dice Choose poetry prompt: A Feeling That’s Hard to Describe.
I’ve wanted to teach since I was 4 years old
And I am all set to graduate in 2022
But I no longer see a future classroom,
I can’t even imagine it
Because I don’t think…
Because I don’t believe I’ll get there.
It’s like
A timeline of your life,
Abruptly stopping at 2020.
Not due to any specific event,
But just no more space on the page.
And you know,
You know all you need to do is
Grab another page and keep writing
But… *Shrug*
At my grandmother’s funeral
My cousin made a poor timing joke
involving them and I dying.
I will never forget the look on my mom’s face
As she contemplated that thought
Or the terrified panic in her voice as she rebuked them.
Every time I feel like I am drowning
I see that face and hear her voice
And I could never,
Could never be the cause of that.
So I keep living,
Feeling utterly lost
Like I’m walking into a dark abyss
I don’t know what I’ll find
What will get written
On the next page in my timeline
But I have to keep going,
For her sake, if not mine.
This is a poetry prompts challenge that covers 120 days. For it you will need a d6 (6 sided die) and a d20 (20 sided die) plus your preferred writing tools.
The 120 prompts are broken down into 6 lists of 20 prompts each. Every day, you roll the d6 to choose which of the 6 lists your prompt will come from. Then you roll the d20 to choose which of those 20 prompts will be your prompts for the day. If you roll a prompt you’ve already done, simply re-roll until you get a new one.
List 1
1. Your Inspriation
2. Pink
3. Beauty
4. Strength
5. Feelings
6. Dreams
7. Childhood
8. A Job
9. Food
10. Stars
11. Last
12. Tradition
13. First Night
14. Annual Goal
15. Best Day
16. Black & White
17. Underneath
18. Did it!
19. Memoir
20. Wrapped
List 2
1. First
2. About Me
3. Sonnet
4. Being Alone
5. Blue
6. A Process
7. Inspired By…
8. Life
9. A Story
10. Summer
11. Night
12. Change
13. I Wish I Could
14. Something Beginning with T
15. Love
16. Confidence
17. A Friend
18. Music
19. Family
20. Nature
List 3
1. “Impressed” (title)
2. Elements
3. Retell a Story in Poem Form
4. Items That Are Always Close By
5. “Guilt” (title)
6. “Forgiveness” (title)
7. “Spirit Animal” (title)
8. “Last Time” (title)
9. Weather
10. Weakness
11. “Arrival” (title)
12. “Last Call” (title)
13. A Surprise You Experienced
14. “Choices” (title)
15. “Promises” (title)
16. “Breathe” (title)
17. “Pain” (title)
18. “Luck”(title)
19. “Abstract” (title)
20. A Feeling That’s Hard to Describe
List 4
1. Everybody
2. Things People Say
3. Wrong Way
4. Too Many
5. Remember
6. Song
7. Impatience
8. If
9. 100 Years
10. What I Wrote
11. Person Who Changed Your Life
12. “Hope” (title)
13. Guilty Pleasures
14. “My Skin” (title)
15. “Home” (title)
16. “Clarity” (title)
17. A Rivalry
18. “Fears” (title)
19. A Significant Memory
20. “Things I’ve Lost” (title)
List 5
1. Things We Carry
2. An Open Door
3. Faces in the Street
4. Mirror
5. This Road
6. Aftermath
7. Very Loud
8. Shoes
9. Nothing
10. Anywhere in the World
11. Out of Control
12. Forgotten
13. Witness
14. Small Things
15. Early Morning
16. Warning
17. Walk Away
18. Super Market
19. Failures
20. Victories
List 6 (this list has some holiday specific prompts, these can be substituted for prompts more appropriate for the time of year)
1. Years Past
2. Caroling
3. Mistletoe
4. Snowy Flight
5. Christmas Romance
6. Grandma’s Recipe
7. Please, Santa
8. Nostalgia
9. Peace
10. Cookie-Gram
11. Pinnacle
12. The Visitor
13. Boxing Day
14. Bygones
15. Past Glory
16. New Plans
17. Blank Page
18. First Step
19. First Snow
20. Parcels
I started this challenge, because I personally struggle with the Day 1, do this prompt type challenges. I prefer not knowing what the next prompt will actually be, this allows me more creative freedom. Feel free to share this with anyone, use it for your classes or personal poetry writing, or tag me in any poems that come as a result of this challenge.
The Poetry Dragon 