“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
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| Alice in Wonderland, Chapter 2, Illustration by John Tenniel |
Midweek Motif ~ Swimming
Your challenge is to take us Swimming.
Build a poem around a swimming adventure, misadventure or place ~ literal or psychological or fantastical.
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- Post your new swimming poem on your site, and then link it here.
- If you use a picture include its link.
- Share only original and new work written for this challenge.
- Leave a comment here.
- Visit and comment on our poems.
(Next week's Midweek Motif is Health.)
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Good Morning Poets! I'm heading out to a busy morning of doctors and water walking. I'll be back mid afternoon to join you here. Have a marvelous day.
ReplyDeleteMay all go well at the doctor's, Susan.
DeleteGood morning Susan! (It's almost midnight here in my part of the world though). Thanks for the prompt... I have approached it a little differently :-)
ReplyDeleteDon't get too busy.. have a nice day ahead. I'll be sleeping soon and hope to wake up with lots of poetry to read :-)
I came home to some mighty fine poems, including yours. Thanks for taking on this prompt and adding photography.
DeleteHi Susan thanks for a wonderful prompt like this...get well soon...
ReplyDeleteAh, Sumana--you take us far with so few words. Thank you!
DeleteSorry that first link will send you right back here - Im on the moon today :)
ReplyDeleteMoon-lit water, maybe. Thank you for another powerful poem.
DeleteHappy mid-week, poets! Love the photo of the happy dog in the water. Looking forward to reading the responses......mine took me way back to the lake of my youth.
ReplyDeleteHello, Sherry! I put the dog in for you, of course.
DeleteThanks for making me moving in the swimming direction... Good day to all!
ReplyDeleteGood day to you. Thanks for the challenging poem you wrote!
DeleteThanks for the wonderful prompt, Susan!! It prompted me to write a poem from my imagination, I think, I have abnormal fear of water...(acquaphobia). So it didn't take long for me to plunge into that deep sea. Smiles...
ReplyDeleteLovely pics...like sherry said, I too lovedd the dog in the water :) Thank you.
Hope everything went on well. It's quite late now, I shall come back to read the other poems tomorrow.
Amazing poem! If that's only imagination ....! AS for me: I keep checking unspecified leg pain--a little more than sciatica and a little less than actual broken bones. It's probably just bruised muscles, but all I've been doing different is treading water in a pool at a gym! Talk about swimming ...
DeleteHi Susan,
ReplyDeleteMy take on this week's motif is an inspirational poem I published to my blog last year that uses swimming as a metaphor. Good night.
jt
Thanks for posting, James. We don't usually accept old poems for this new-poem prompt--we save that for the Sunday Pantry. But, hey ...
DeleteSusan,
ReplyDeleteLeaving a new poem with Poets United today. An excellent motif, with plenty of room for interpretation...
Best wishes,
Eileen
Thanks for taking up the challenge, Eileen and making it your own.
DeleteHi Susan,
ReplyDeleteThis is very timely for me.
Mine is up at: http://purplepeninportland.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/my-head-is-swimming/
I don't think you read these comments. You never explain why you don't use the linky. I've asked several times and so has Mary.
DeleteTaking a different view on this prompt- Thank you for another highly creative and visionary theme...
ReplyDeleteGood to see you, Anjum. I found a poem you wrote on the 10th of November, Anjum. Was this the one you intended for this swimming motif?
DeleteI'm embarrassed to admit that I never learned how to swim. Almost drowned once, learning. But that's not what I wrote about. Thanks for the promt Susan.
ReplyDeleteThank you for writing to this prompt, Myrna. I love romping and floating in water, but cannot swim/crawl to save my life.
Deleteit sounds simple..but it's not..this prompt threw me into the space where i had to do lot of swimming..smiles..thank you Susan
ReplyDeleteFor us who benefit from your writing, it was worth it. Thank you for swimming through!
DeletePlease bring the rest of our poems tomorrow to the Poetry Pantry--old ones and new!
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