Writing From The Inside Out Week 6 Prompts
Based on Migrating Hearts
Read the poem
Do your own reflection on it, noting what it inspires in you
Feel free to use your own reflection as your prompt or…
Use the selection of prompts below the poem
Pick one that inspires you and write (feel free to use only one or write several poems using different prompts) or…
Don’t use any of the provided prompts and follow your inspiration from wherever it comes
Migrating Hearts
Poems spill onto the page,
flowing from a mouth of roses,
the fragrance of nectar carried
on the wind across oceans,
giving lift to wings
of migrating butterflies.
Who are we to deny them,
after traveling 2,500 miles
to where winter and summer
meet, our hearts held aloft
on their thin wings?
See how they have
dropped down this ladder
from the sunlit day.
Shall we go with our
migrating hearts?
Climbing, wingless,
into the sky to soar
across the lonely desert,
over the deep azure seas
and above the pure white peaks
to find our love.
Our poems spill onto the page
because we were born for this journey.
© Nick LeForce
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February 12, 2021 at 4:00 PM PST
My Thoughts
To me, poetry is the language of the soul and nothing is more soulful than love. And if there is a season for love poems, it is the time around Valentine’s Day when would-be lovers romance one another; when couples rekindle the fire between them; when the jilted, the estranged, and the unrequited seek solace in verse or strive to reopen the heart of the lost lover; and when long time partners speak the enduring affections of the heart for each other. It’s a time when our migrating hearts long to fly together and poems spill upon the page. The challenge this week is to write a love poem: What will spill from your heart upon the page?
Every year for Valentine’s Day since 2014 I have published an e-book collection of love poems. My latest book, When Sea Kisses Shore, is a compilation of three e-books into a softcover edition and is now available on Amazon. Migrating Hearts is excerpted from that collection. The poem refers to the monarch butterfly’s yearly 2,500 mile migration from Canada to Mexico and back again. No single monarch makes the whole trip, yet the entire kaleidoscope somehow manages to navigate the route every year. Sadly, these amazing creatures are rapidly going extinct, their population at last count was just 29,000, a 75% reduction from what it was just 20 years ago at 1.2 million. To learn what you can do to help, go here: What you can do to help monarchs.
When Sea Kisses Shore
Prompt Menu
Take a walk in nature and let the mouths of roses and the frangrances in the wind speak their love through you.
Write about a loving experience that lifted your wings and gave you the courage to fly.
What migrating urge have you denied yourself? What migrating urge have you followed?
Love has inspired people of all times to cross the lonely desert, soar over azure seas, and fly above the highest peaks. Write a poem about the lengths you have gone to, or would go to, for love.
Write a poem about some animal or insect that embodies love or some expression of love.
Describe the journey you were born to be on, either one unque to you or one you were born to share together with another or with others.
Use the prompt: Love spilled upon the page…
Or write from something else that inpsores you in the poem or anywhere else in life that inspires you.