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| "Vodka was used in early recipes for gun powder." Fact from the Amazing and Interesting Fact Generator. Photo copyrighted, Isadora Gruye Photography. |
Greetings Garden Dwellers!
Welcome back to Out of Standard, where I will set before you a challenge to defy the conventions of a particular theme. I will call upon you to write out of the standard and find new places in the everyday. It is in that spirit in which I present July’s challenge...
OBSCURING THE TRUTH WITH FACTS
Today, I am calling all toads to wake from their daydreams (just for a while), and focus on incorporating a little teeny bit of reality into their work. Facts and trivial bits of information, when incorporated into a poem and bring the truth to further light. Today your challenge is thus...
Visit The Amazing and Interesting Fact Generator for a factoid, then build a poem around it. How, when, and why is up to you! The purpose of the prompt is not to add the fact in randomly, but to think about it and craft some fitting poetry.
*You may click on the “Hit Me Again” button if your fact is not particularly inspiring, but I find the challenge more rewarding if you take what the almighty folks at Mental Floss give you at first blush.*
**If you would like, you may use more than one fact, but easy now! Leave some room for poetry**
KEEP IN MIND
Like every challenge, your poem must by newly written for this challenge and not one which you have previously written which conveniently fits the theme.
So go now, my muddy buddies, and bring us back something shiny and new.
Great prompt...I am off to press a button once r until :)
ReplyDeleteSo fun!
ReplyDeleteHello, dear friends. I apologise for my absence since Sunday. There was a fire which burnt the main telephone cable to my area and we have been without our adsl connection. It is up now but running very slowly so I will try to catch up with all my commentary tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWonderful prompt. There is so much reality filling the world at the moment that we should go poetic on it, indeed... If not, we might explode. And by "we" I mean "me".
ReplyDeleteOops! Mine is not part of a triptych, so sorry I posted wrong name, but correct link... about "Hysterical Women" and "running uteruses"!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Iz, for a great prompt and a new site I'll click on time and time again. Amy
Izzy, a very charming prompt--I wrote something but didn't feel it was very good! Oh well--it's a cool site, thanks! k.
ReplyDeleteUmm...did anyone else get sucked into the vortex of awesome facts??! Well, I did and now my brain is going in at least five different directions. I'm going to sleep on it. Thank you for the challenge Izy...very cool!
ReplyDeleteDecided not to sleep on it! ;)
ReplyDeleteWhy, Izzy, do your prompts always seem to be accompanied by me pulling out my hair? :)
ReplyDeleteWow, this may be the hardest poem I have written so far this year. Maybe not, but it took the longest to spin. Thank you for the prompt, Isadora.
ReplyDeleteA fun challenge, Izzy. Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteI didn't cheat, I pressed the button and pressed it more times. Then I notice a link on their side bar about my topic. I pressed it and "Voila"!!
Sorry I'm late, I always am (sorry). Really though, I have been pretty busy.
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