On The Corner of HODGE and PODGE

#935439

May 28, 2018 at 11:47pm

PROMPT This might apply to any country you are from. What are your feelings for the Memorial Day, and if you were made to serve in a branch of the military, which one would you choose? One of the things that I'd like to do when I get back on my feet again financially and am driving again is to return to doing what my folks and I used to do every year at this time: going to the various cemeteries and decorating the graves of friends and loved ones. When... [Read more]

#935114

May 23, 2018 at 11:54pm

PROMPT Have you ever won a contest and found out that the prize was something totally different then advertised? Write about your experience with real life contests. When I was in eighth grade, I really went all out to sell more than $100 in magazine subscriptions, because I wanted to be in a bracket to win this record player that you didn't need to plug in because it ran on batteries. It was a combination record player and radio, and I was looking for... [Read more]

#934738

May 17, 2018 at 11:57pm

PROMPT Make a list of everything that inspires you-from books to web sites, paintings and movies and anything else you can think of. I can't make a list of everything, as the list is neverending (as in always being added to). However, I can share directions to a place where you will be finding a growing number of inspiring sheets that will be a lot like what this prompt is asking for... Enjoy! (e:delight} Written By For: (Art by ... [Read more]

#934681

May 16, 2018 at 11:56pm

PROMPT Will you be watching the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan? You knew this was coming. It all depends on whether or not I happen to be up at that time. There's a chance that I will be and a chance that I won't be. In other words, it might be possible that I'll sleep right through it. I still remember when the groom's mom and dad (or should I say mum and dad) got married. It was July 29, 1981, and Uncle Finley and Aunt... [Read more]

#934575

May 15, 2018 at 11:57pm

PROMPT “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.” Walt Whitman Do you sometimes look in other people’s eyes and imagine who they may be and what they may have done with their lives? Also, do you think this is what most poets and writers do? The following song... {embed:https://youtu.be/8Ms3mJFkSeg} ...has a very special meaning to me. It takes me back in time to 1990 when I'd m... [Read more]

#934397

May 11, 2018 at 11:54pm

PROMPT The mirror never lies. Or does it? At carnivals, fairs, and amusement parks, there is often an attraction known as a house of mirrors. This attraction is usually located within another attraction known as a fun house. Anyway, these attractions contain a number of mirrors that are distorted in some way so that you (or should I say your reflection) might look taller, shorter, fatter, thinner, etc. than you really are. There's a scene out of the... [Read more]

#934143

May 8, 2018 at 11:54pm

PROMPT Is what people learn in schools enough for living this earthly life? Or what are some of the things you learned in life that the schools didn’t teach you? And what would be important to teach young people before they start on their own? Answer any or all of the questions, in any way you wish. I'm going to answer — at least, in part — all three of these questions. Is what people learn in schools enough for living this earthly life? ... [Read more]

#934136

May 7, 2018 at 11:59pm

PROMPT If you have ever met a highly manipulative person, what are the characteristics, actions, or feelings of such a person? Or if you haven’t met one, can you imagine what they’d be like, and could you use such a character in your fiction? Can you make him or her the protagonist, antagonist, or a secondary character? The deadline is amost here, so I'm going to make this brief and say: DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED!!! Written By ... [Read more]

#933960

May 4, 2018 at 11:58pm

PROMPT Since Fivesixer ☮ (suser:fivesixer} likes facts on Fridays, let's give him 11 uses for a drinking straw except drinking that's too dang easy. Just checking in to let you know that a response to this will be finished in a few hours and will be found here: Written By For: (Art by ) Welcome 2 my neighborhood in Blog City where I live On The Corner of HODGE and PODGE Go {x-link:h... [Read more]

#933851

May 4, 2018 at 12:00am

PROMPT "Spring is like perhaps a hand / (which comes carefully / out of Nowhere)arranging / a window, into which people look," writes e. e. cummings, using the image of a hand and its actions to describe the nature of spring. His musings go on in the poem to make various imaginative leaps, but its twists and turns are held together by the shared exploration of a specific subject. Try writing your a poem, short story or blog entry that begins with, "... [Read more]

#933844

May 2, 2018 at 11:53pm

PROMPT Zachary Schomburg's poetry collection Fjords Vol. 1 (Black Ocean, 2012) was inspired by his desire to write poems based on the dreams his friends had shared with him. In an interview for the Pleistocene, he explained that part of his process was "e-mailing my friends or having a beer and talking to them about their most interesting dreams or their most recent dreams, and trying to make poems out of them." The resulting poems have the odd clarity of dre... [Read more]