The Weekly Prompt 6.29.26
The Capricorn Full Moon
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Below is a seven-line prompt. These prompts help guide you through the creation of a poem. You can fill in the blanks with your own lines or draw inspiration from the framework provided.
This week’s prompt is designed to help you connect with the Capricorn Full Moon.
The Title: “A Calling ________”
Line 1: “The work ______”
Line 2: “Between two _______”
Line 3: “I write _______”
Line 4: “Called ________”
Line 5: “Creating _______”
Line 6: “Illumination ______”
Line 7: “Luminary _________”
I wanted to share mine this week…
A Calling I Answer Across the Lake
The work of my life has been poems,
crafted between the pines I write my name
again in dirt blood, the one that was called in hawk
language, the one that the forest created
under the illumination of a full moon.
What if my heart was a luminary, too?
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