Thank You Notes is a monthly prompt that focuses on expressing our thanks to a particular person, place, or thing — in poems, paragraphs, or pictures. This month, we’re crafting thank you’s to Soap.
Prompt Guidelines and Options
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- Be specific. Think nouns instead of adjectives. If you are crafting a pictorial thanks, show us something unusual or intriguing that we might not have otherwise noticed if we hadn’t seen your picture.
- Consider fitting the form of your poem, paragraph, or picture to mirror the nature of the person, place, or thing to which you are expressing thanks. A sonnet is different from a villanelle, for instance. Maybe one would be more fitting than the other.
- Consider playing Taboo and try writing without using the words and phrases thanks, thank you, gratitude, or grateful.
- Consider doing a little research about your subject: its history, associated words (and their etymologies), music, art, sculpture, architecture, fashion, science, and so on. Look for unusual details.
That’s it! We look forward to your creative thank you notes.
Photo by 55 Laney 69, Creative Commons, via Flickr. Post by Megan Willome, author of The Joy of Poetry.
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Megan Willome is a writer, editor, and author of The Joy of Poetry: How to Keep, Save & Make Your Life With Poems and Rainbow Crow: poems in and out of form. Her day is incomplete without poetry, tea, and a walk in the dark.
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Bethany R. says
Fun prompt! Looking forward to reading the TSP community’s responses. This is such a lovely place to play with words!
Megan Willome says
Thanks, Bethany! I was washing my hands with some great-smelling new soaps from Stonewall Kitchen in Maine, and I felt immensely grateful that not only does soap exist but good soap too.
Katie says
Elusive Irish Spring
Slip-sliding
Out of my fingers
All the way
Past my toes
Swirl-twirling
Under my
Drenched
Sudsy self . . .it g-o-e-s!
Bethany R. says
Fun, Katie! The formatting of “g-o-e-s,” adds to that feeling of it getting away. 😉
Katie says
Thanks Bethany:) I like playing with words!
Megan Willome says
Ah, Irish Spring! I remember those commercials with a dude under a waterfall. Love how you played with this, Katie!
Katie says
Me too, Megan! Gotta love the ’70s;)
Thanks, it was fun!
Sandra Heska King says
Fun, Katie. I was sniffing the Irish Spring in the grocery store the other day. Now I want to buy some.
Katie says
Thanks, Sandra:)
Actually I’ve used shower gel for a while now (Aveeno, Lavendar Stress Relief, ahhhh), but my hubby still uses Irish Spring.
Is Safeguard still made? I used to like that fragrance.
Sharon A Gibbs says
Soap can be elusive, can’t it? 🙂
I like the playfulness here.
Katie says
Thank you, Sharon:)
I enjoyed “Caress”, too.
Sharon A Gibbs says
Caress
I kiss
the nape of your neck.
You guide
me over your form.
I cling to curves,
hug your hollows,
leave a part of myself
with you.
Steam surges.
I fall at your feet.
Megan Willome says
Hot & Steamy, Sharon. Love it!
Sandra Heska King says
Oooo-la-la.
Bethany R. says
Great line – “hug your hollows”
Laura Lynn Brown says
Oh, cotton blossom,
you’re almost to the dregs.
You’re someone’s favorite shower gel —
you moisturize her legs —
but you’ve been discontinued.
Oh, no! Alas! Aiee!
Hold on. We still can buy online
and Prime you, postage-free.
Megan Willome says
You have a flair for rhyme, my dear. Love seeing “Aiee!” in a poem.
Is that the Bath & Body Works Cotton Blossom? I’ve bought that one.
Laura Lynn Brown says
Thanks. I needed something to rhyme with “free.”
And yes, that’s the product.
Sandra Heska King says
Love, love, love, love, love.
Bethany R. says
Such fun, Laura. 🙂
Sandra Heska King says
Soapbox
Be done with frothing at the mouth
and oratory oozing
Safeguard your tongue
and dial it down
You’re cruising for a bruising.
Your speech, bar none’s, the slickest
but your words dovetail with air
It’s time to chill
slide off your box
and take your seat, oh Phil.
Megan Willome says
Sandy, I love that you took the prompt and veered toward a different kind of soap, a soapbox. “Frothing at the mouth” is especially good, with the idea of soap frothing & foaming.
Katie says
LOL! Oh, what fun, Sandra:)
Love, “oratory oozing” and “slide off your box”!!
Bethany R. says
I like how you’ve approached this from a different angle, Sandra. 🙂 “Oratory oozing” is a great phrase.
Sharon A Gibbs says
Sandy,
Very creative! I love “Safeguard your tongue and dial it down.”
Thank you for taking this unexpected direction.