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Wait, don't gasp...it isn't what you think. I thought this would make an intriguing prompt. Before you say, "Oh, my".... wait a minute, hear me out.
I want you to think in terms of love and hate, pain and pleasure, beauty and ugly, etc. There are fine lines between these. This is where we are going with the prompt. I want you to write a poem about the fine lines, the between, the shades of gray!
Now, if you have read the book and want to go there-your choice! Just remember it is your blog, your voice. I'm not looking for sex poems- I am looking for poems that blur the lines, the the gray!
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not”
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.” -Anthony Robbins
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Interesting take! I liked it!
ReplyDeleteFun prompt, Ella.
ReplyDeleteHi, I have added a poem, but i am not totally sure as i have never read Shades of Grey. It explores the forbidden and the hidden, anticipation and desire, searching and finding. I hope it is OK. Thank you i enjoyed writing and found the idea quite different and interesting. Alan
ReplyDeleteHaven't read it either. Sounds like soft porn for suburbia to me, but then, who's to say? Ha ha Amy
DeleteHi everyone sorry the link didn't work! I will try to fix it~
ReplyDeleteJanie-I wanted to blur the lines a bit. Besides it is in the between where we merge and share ideas :D I'm glad~
Mary-Thank you! :D
Mametz-You do not need to read it. I just thought it would grab everyone's attention, so much press about it. Alan I'm sure it is intriguing! Can't wait to read yours and all the others :D
Hi Ella and PU. Mine is about the grey of old buildings...hope that's ok ..lol
ReplyDeletenice prompt. Was thinking of liminal states, places between water and land: swamps, marshes, reedbeds, lagoons. They have a distinct quality to them. I always find myself immersed in the sounds, smells, light tricks and shifting states. They are the brightest grey I could think of.
ReplyDeleteDaydreamertoo-sounds great! I love old building :D
ReplyDeleteCheesewolf-Ooh, intriguing...sounds like a place a wolf would love to visit ;D
Mine is depressing, but true. Maybe I needed to write it, but now I have the worst headache....augh!
Ella,
ReplyDeleteIt is good to be back posting poems and writing again. I have been busy with family and home commitments recently.
I liked the scope of this topic, but went with my heart!!!
Eileen:)
I read the trilogy. Thought it SO poorly written. My piece is brief, observational.
ReplyDeleteHey, y'all. You know MY grey... but it's all good! Grey is also the color of pencil lead! Peace, Amy
ReplyDeleteElla, just viewed the video. Disgusting, the image of "beauty" that is presented to our girls (to live up tp) and to our boys (to seek out only the symmetrical and made-up women). Amazing, and thanks for the eye-opener as well as the prompt! Unretouched Amy
ReplyDeleteAmy-I love your poem, you brought it! Yes, that is a favorite color of mine, too-pencil lead! Peace to you :D
ReplyDeleteKim-I enjoyed yours, clever! :D
Eileen-You never can do wrong, when you go there! Glad you are back :D
I loved everyone's poem...they all brought so many emotions
into view! I am amazed at the talent brought forward by grey!
I have not heard of the book and had nothing gray to think of till today, so here is a late gray poem.
ReplyDeleteElla.. your prompts give me just the right nudge to right.. I now write of things that I never thought I would.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this prompt, Ella. It has been simmering for hours, and is finally cooked enough for this meal, if not got tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteInteresting prompt, Ella. Mine is up at.
ReplyDeleteRead the prompt tried something,this is what I came up with strange but it came and I wrote.
ReplyDeletei've been up all night writing but i'll be back to visit others asap!
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great prompt, it's brought me out of my reading and into sharing my first poem here. Emma at LLM Calling
ReplyDeleteHello Emma-Thank you, I will be by! Welcome, so happy you are here :D
ReplyDeleteDani-You have till Sunday! <3 no hurry! Get some rest :D I'm behind, too.
Tatius-Strange can bring forth a lot of feelings! :D
Hi Sara-Yes, I thought I would push us into the vague, void of grey!
Shivani-Good, that is what a prompt should do! It should take us down a different path :D Thank you~
Libby-Late gray is good! :D
Susan-I love that, you are so clever :D