Monthly Archives: October 2025
Writober, Day 3
Welcome to “Writober,” a challenge hosted by Maria at Experience Writing.
Today’s chosen prompt: Texture. “What does fear feel like? Often textures combine with smells, like putrid mushy rot, or earthy swampy decay; the sharp metallic iron of dripping blood, or the sweet snap of crisp ant armor. Try describing three or more different sensory perceptions, then a physical reaction, and a contradictory thought. Or you could use sensory imagery from at least three different senses, follow it with a flash of triggered memory, then a conflicting physical sensation, or several conflicting sensations at once.”
A Dream?
Step out of bed
into slick, sticky, wet
on cold wood floors.
Slip, crash to knees
hands slam down
slip in slime
darkly red in dim
light. Gasp, “Blood”
and rise to flick
on lights, eyes resting
on emptiness where death
waited in your dream.
Pull Up a Seat Challenge – 2025 Week 40
Welcome to XingfulMama’s Pull Up a Seat Challenge2
“As I get older I find myself more and more often looking for a place to perch when I am out and about. This might be a chair, a bench, a wall, a pew…maybe even a log or a rock. These spots can be artfully designed, quirky or very plain, sometimes they have a view, sometimes you meet someone else who needs a rest.”
Writober, Day 2
Welcome to “Writober,” a challenge hosted by Maria at Experience Writing.
Today’s chosen prompt “What sounds scare you? Think of a time you were startled by a sound, in the dark, alone at night. Describe it as clearly and with as much detail as you can. In your poem, try to recreate the fear you felt through only describing sounds.
Sounds in the Night
I lie in bed
darkness weighs
like a soft blanket
comforting. But then
I hear a creak,
was that a step?
Tapping tapping up the stairs
towards my bedroom,
the swishing of a cloak
against wall and door,
a muffled “ahem”
as if to warn me —
They are coming.
Writober, Day 1
Welcome to “Writober,” a challenge hosted by Maria at Experience Writing.
Today’s prompt (well one of them as there are a few to choose from, and this is the one I am going for): “Prompt: Focus on your breath. Cover your ears and listen to your own breathing. Use punctuation, repetition, enjambment, and/or internal rhyme to create breath in your poem. Write about one of your deepest fears, expressing how your breathing changes when gripped by fear.”
And today, I will write a Breath Poem as suggested
Sick and Alone at Home
Warm blanket
covers me
hidden from ghosts
