Windows
Greetings again, all Toads and Friends of Toads. Here I am again with another "Mary's Mixed Bag." You never know what you will find in a mixed bag, do you? Today the subject I'd like you to think about is WINDOWS!  |
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Windows can either be literal or figurative. Literal windows can be opened or closed. We can choose to look out or to hide behind curtains that cover the window.
Windows can let in or inhibit us from experiencing nature. Do we want our windows to enclose ourselves inside or to let the light in. How large are the windows in your life? Are they opened to let in fresh air and outside sounds, or do they keep fresh air and sounds out?
We can look out of windows in cars, busses, trains, or planes and see a whole different world pass by. What do you see as you look outside your car/ bus / plane window?
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Thinking of windows figuratively: It has been said the eyes are the windows to the soul. Think about that. Does a poem come to mind? How about the window of opportunity?
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Have you ever broken a window?
What is the most beautiful window you have ever seen?
If you were to craft a stained-glass window, what would you show?
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If you were going to be a window peeper, whose window would you like to peep into?
I am looking for any NEW poem that contains a window. Be sure to include a link back to Real Toads and also to visit as many other poems as you can in the spirit of friendship.
Yeah! I am first. Good morning Toads. Thanks Mary for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteI've got ideas for six poems already, what amazing.inspiration Mary, thanks. now to decide whic to write first and link.up :)
ReplyDeleteoooh i have lots of windows poems! but for you, Mary, i will write a fresh one :)
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ReplyDeleteoooh, love windows! Thanks Mary :D
ReplyDeleteGlad to see a few have been inspired already this morning. I contributed my own as well. Hope the sun is shining through YOUR window today!
ReplyDeleteI often photograph windows and doors, so this is a fun prompt for me!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary! I enjoyed this prompt ;D
ReplyDeleteRichard, that's a stunner. People in glass houses should pull the curtains!
ReplyDeleteI have linked to one that I wrote in hospital in early December, because the windows really were very important to me.
You did say we could be literal, Mary, so I took you up on it!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, Mary. In 2011, I got a window for my birthday.
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Thank you, Mary for the prompt...your last image opened the flood-gates...
ReplyDelete:)'s to all!
Windows are really interesting and I like wide open windows.
ReplyDeleteI know of a house (big bunglow) with hardly any light coming in due to the small windows and that too with the chics pulled down (24x7) Its so depressing going to that house.
Wow, what amazing poems have been shared so far!! Thank you to those who have already shared....and keep 'em coming!
ReplyDeleteLovely prompt--windows are always a good option. As Billy Collins writes in his poem, Monday, "The clerks are at their desks, the miners are down in their mines, and the poets are looking out their windows." :)
ReplyDeleteWell I took a shot of my office window and described what I saw ~
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday to everyone ~
Looking out on the festivities rather than running around - that's a theme of this little Tanka. It fit right in with the window theme.
ReplyDeleteI've written six poems this evening inspired by this prompt, thanks Mary. I've linked up the first I wrote but.I'm not saying it's the one I like best, they're all so different.
ReplyDeleteWhat a good prompt Mary. I hope something comes to me for this one. My poetic brain is feeling kind of comatose but I will get working on it right away! Thanks.
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ReplyDeleteThis prompt surprised me, or, rather, my take on the prompt surprised me. Never know what's going to pop out as poetry.
Thanks, Mary!
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Only a day adrift! :)
ReplyDeleteyou guys are amazing, my 7 year old was reading some of my Windows poems and decided to write one herself and illustrate it - I've put it at number 20. please give her some comment love.
ReplyDeleteI love windows and doors, both what they are and what they stand for. And I have many window poems from which to choose, but, dear Mary, I wrote a new one for you.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inspiration.
Rinkly Rimes, I loved both of your poems for this prompt but it says new comments are disabled on your site. I smiled at the streakless glass idea - when you live with four dogs, when the sun shines, one sees a lot of noseprints on the glass!
ReplyDeletehi friends, just wanted to say that i feel dark right now... my poem is dark, my mind is dark, and i'm going to come around and read all your window poems later. just wanted you to know i'm not posting & running. hope some light shines through your windows.
ReplyDeleteI've been around commenting on many of your window postings and here I am late getting my own posting up. My poetic brain is still partly in the holiday mode--but I am afraid that excuse will not to believable for long!
ReplyDeleteI'm late! I'm late! For a very important date! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the thought provoking post, which took me down a very interesting path.
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