Voicing our Dreams through Poetry
Day Five of the Mini Poetry Writing Prompt Challenge
Hi Poetic Substack Lovelies,
I can’t believe it is day five of the poetry writing prompt challenge already. I hope you have enjoyed the writing prompts this week and that you get some lovely poems written from them.
For the final poetry prompt, I want you to take inspiration from the affirmation card in the picture above, and to use the quote ‘I am the dreamer of my dream’ as your starting point. (The affirmation card comes from the Gabby Bernstein, ‘The Universe Has Your Back’ deck, (available here).
Write down the affirmation, take a couple of deep breaths, then see what flows.
You may like to think about dreams that you hope to bring to fruition, dreams that have already manifested for you, or the dream of life in general. What does it mean to you to step into the sense that you have the ability to dream your own dreams into reality? What does that look like for you?
Write for around ten minutes and see what flows.
Below is also a poem entitled ‘Dreams’, by poet, Langston Hughes, to give you further inspiration.
Dreams
BY LANGSTON HUGHES (first published in The World Tomorrow, 1923)
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
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if you do, so I can read them.Hopefully, by the time you have completed all of the prompts you should have at least five poems. If you would like to see them published in a future edition of Poetry & Purpose, hit reply on this email to send them to me, along with your name and Substack, or Social Media Links, and a little fifty word bio about what writing means to you, or drop them to the Subscriber Chat along with the title ‘Submission’ , so I know that you want to publish them. The cut off date for Submissions is Friday 4th July, at 12pm (BST). So this gives you two weeks to tweak and send them over. Feel free to send up to five poems. I will publish as many as I can.
I hope you have enjoyed the challenge and found enjoyment and inspiration from it, and thank you again for subscribing to Poetry & Purpose, I am really grateful to every one of you and can’t wait to get to know and connect with you all.
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I hope to read your beautiful poems soon,
Kelly Louise
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Kelly Louise Marshall is a professional poet & writer based in Cornwall, UK. She has an MA in Creative Writing & BA (Hons) in English Literature & Creative Writing, both with The Open University. She has had several poems published, including her poem ‘The Day Before The War’ for which she earned Poet Laureate title in Mslexia magazine, as well as winning the poetry prize for her poem ‘Glass’ with Scribbled Literary Magazine. She has performed her poetry for The Rebecca Swift Foundation as part of Lyra Fest at Bristol Poetry Festival amongst others. She has also had features published in publications such as Heroica, and taught writing workshops for organisations such as Cornwall Wildlife Trust.