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Photo Prompts: An Ode to Home Photo Play

By Heather Eure 32 Comments

The classic ode. A loving tribute to what stirs the heart. There is something about home that bestows a sense of peace, comfort, and belonging. Home sustains us. Walk through the door after a long day and inhale. It smells familiar, like a favorite sweater.

Photo Prompt:

Take a photograph a cherished spot in your home, during your favorite time of day. Is it a whisper to a secret place, or an arms-open-wide, laughing welcome to all who gather? Capture the space from an unexpected angle.

Share your Ode to Home with us. Post your photo play on your blog, Flickr, or Pinterest account, and leave the link in a comment on this post. Some photos will be chosen for feature at Tweetspeak Poetry and all will be posted on our Pinterest Photo Play board. Deadline for submissions is this Thursday. See you back here soon!

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week’s poetry prompt. Here is a poem from Nancy that reminds us of home and the pleasures of eating cereal (which may or may not be for the kids):

Oh Captain, my captain;
Skipper of cereal crunch

—by Nancy Franson

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NOTE TO POETS: Looking for your Monday prompt? On Photo Play days, it’s right here. Choose a photo and use it to jump start a poem!

Be sure to check out the highlights from Photo Prompt participants on the Photo Play Pinterest board! And keep clicking and/or playing with words.

 

Featured photo by Brian Boucheron. Post by Heather Eure.
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Heather Eure
Heather Eure
Heather Eure has served as the Poetry Editor for the late Burnside Collective and Special Projects Editor for us at Tweetspeak Poetry. Her poems have appeared at Every Day Poems. Her wit has appeared just about everywhere she's ever showed up, and if you're lucky you were there to hear it.
Heather Eure
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  1. Donna says

    March 10, 2014 at 8:26 am

    Nancy!! Love that! :0)

    Reply
  2. SimplyDarlene says

    March 10, 2014 at 11:51 am

    What a challenge
    “home” is –
    so many
    doors, hallways
    windows, angles;
    vantages
    cannot be
    camera
    captured because
    I’ve yet
    to find an inner
    heart
    exploratory
    lens that snaps
    clear.

    By the way, did you read the photog’s note (on Flickr) regarding that egg images? It’s pure poetry if you ask me.

    Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      March 11, 2014 at 12:59 pm

      Oooooh, thought provoking! Thanks, Darlene. 🙂

      Reply
  3. S. Etole says

    March 10, 2014 at 3:16 pm

    Adding this to the Photo Prompt:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/45405642@N08/sets/72157642170927943/

    Reply
    • Will Willingham says

      March 10, 2014 at 4:51 pm

      Susan, these are beautiful. I’m especially captured by the lace peeking out of the drawer and the last one, the fabric (is it a throw?) on the floor.

      Reply
      • S. Etole says

        March 10, 2014 at 5:09 pm

        It’s a runner on the kitchen table that I rumpled to catch the soft morning light.

        Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      March 11, 2014 at 1:03 pm

      I was able to see one photo– the window sheer. Which is very nice. Are there more?

      Reply
      • S. Etole says

        March 11, 2014 at 1:44 pm

        There are seven photos in the set.

        Reply
        • Heather Eure says

          March 12, 2014 at 1:12 pm

          I see them now! They are really good. The drawer with lace has a lovely warmth about it. Inviting. The cat also makes me want to curl up and take a nap. Great photos.

          Reply
  4. L.L. Barkat says

    March 10, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    Nancy, such a fun poem. Writing poetry. Look at you 🙂

    Reply
  5. Sandra Heska King says

    March 11, 2014 at 11:23 am

    Bravo, Nancy!

    Reply
  6. Carol J. Garvin says

    March 11, 2014 at 11:23 am

    Here’s what my photo prompted, with its Flickr link below:

    Voices mingle in filtered shadows
    Echoes of laughter and tears
    Meals shared
    Hearts bared
    Hints of a food-laden table
    Where family and faith meet
    In sun-dappled love

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/69253724@N00/sets/72157642206506045/

    Reply
    • Sandra Heska King says

      March 11, 2014 at 12:04 pm

      Squeee, Carol! I especially love the filtered shadows and sun-dappled love.

      Reply
    • S. Etole says

      March 11, 2014 at 12:39 pm

      Feeling and seeing the love in this.

      Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      March 11, 2014 at 1:05 pm

      Oh, I like this very much. Such a nice photo. A lovely narrative in poem and picture. Thanks, Carol!

      Reply
  7. Monica Sharman says

    March 11, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    Very fun. And I was able to do it even on a blizzardy day. 🙂

    Set on flickr:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/monica-sharman/sets/72157642217850513/

    Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      March 12, 2014 at 1:07 pm

      Very nice! I’d love to hear about your favorite spaces in your photographic ode.

      Reply
  8. Lorretta says

    March 11, 2014 at 10:08 pm

    My photo offering can be found here:

    http://www.pinterest.com/pin/6685099421479055/

    Reply
    • Elizabeth W. Marshall says

      March 12, 2014 at 11:26 am

      Loretta,

      It make my heart flip flop sideways happy to see you here. Oh joy. And I skipped over to see your wonderful photograph. Love the color, the light and I too have a “thing” for glass. Amazing. Welcome here, friend.

      Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      March 12, 2014 at 1:08 pm

      So cheerful! Brightens up the dreary days, doesn’t it? Thanks, Loretta. 🙂

      Reply
  9. SimplyDarlene says

    March 12, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    Here’s mine:

    http://simplydarlene.com/2014/03/12/our-scattered-matters/

    Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      March 13, 2014 at 2:37 pm

      Darlene, I was hoping someone might express the more complicated side to the meaning of home. This is good.

      Reply
  10. Richard Maxson says

    March 12, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    Here is prompt and poem, actually inspired by my early years in LA at the early years of the Oxford Theater, where many nights I slept on a pile of theater curtains (actually very comfortable).

    http://theimaginedjay.com/?page_id=545

    http://theimaginedjay.com/?p=152

    Reply
  11. Richard Maxson says

    March 12, 2014 at 6:04 pm

    I didn’t do the photo link correctly. This may be more direct.

    http://theimaginedjay.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Harmony.jpg

    Reply
    • Monica Sharman says

      March 12, 2014 at 10:15 pm

      Wowza, Richard! This is fantastic!

      Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      March 13, 2014 at 2:30 pm

      I love what you’ve captured here, Richard.

      Reply
    • Donna says

      March 18, 2014 at 4:22 pm

      Oh wow, Richard. The light is wonderful! The wood grain and flaming… and the pick marks on the guard. So nice!

      Reply
  12. Patricia @ Pollywog Creek says

    March 12, 2014 at 11:13 pm

    This wasn’t an easy prompt to consider. For one thing, my favorite time of day is early morning – very early morning before there’s much, if any daylight. And because I don’t use flash, it’s a difficult time of day for me to be taking photos. Secondly, it was impossible for me to consider just one space out of the whole. For me, what whispers “home” is the people I share home with – whether it’s the ladies who gather here for Bible study Wednesday mornings, the grandlittles who call me “mimi, my daughter who still lives at home, or the man I love and have shared multiple spaces with over the 3+ decades we’ve been married. My photos for this prompt include a mason jar of azaleas on the kitchen counter, a bucket of baby/toddler toys, and my husband’s hand as he helps me in the kitchen. These photos are in my “Tweetspeak Poetry Photo Prompt” board on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/patriciawhunter/tweetspeak-poetry-photo-prompts/

    Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      March 13, 2014 at 2:23 pm

      Patricia, I think you considered it very well. Home isn’t always a ‘what,’ but a ‘who.’ There’s no wrong answers. I like your photos very much. Especially the one with your husband’s hand. It says home.

      Reply
  13. Donna says

    March 18, 2014 at 4:26 pm

    I’m a week late, but here I am anyway. 🙂
    With a photo,
    and a poem… on my blog
    http://thebrightersideblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/groundlessly-gone.html

    Reply

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