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Thank You Notes: Walks

By Megan Willome 10 Comments


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 walks.

For me, the best part of moving this past spring was finding new walks to go on with my dogs. We turn left and reach the city square; turn right and stroll by cows and windmills. I vary my walks, doing them clockwise one day and counterclockwise the next. Where are your favorite walks? Do you go alone or with furry friends?

Prompt Guidelines and Options

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Consider playing Taboo and try writing without using the words and phrases thanks, thank you, gratitude, or grateful.

4. 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 Pawel Pacholec, Creative Commons, via Flickr. Post by Megan Willome.

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Megan Willome is the author of The Joy of Poetry: How to Keep, Save & Make Your Life With Poems,. She also writes for the WACOAN magazine, the Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post, and Magnolia Journal. When she goes to the library, she always comes home with at least one book for young people. Her day is incomplete without poetry and tea.
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About Megan Willome

Megan Willome is the author of The Joy of Poetry: How to Keep, Save & Make Your Life With Poems,. She also writes for the WACOAN magazine, the Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post, and Magnolia Journal. When she goes to the library, she always comes home with at least one book for young people. Her day is incomplete without poetry and tea.

Comments

  1. Katie says

    September 28, 2017 at 10:40 pm

    Morning Walk

    Sunlight slants through
    towering poplars.

    Doves coo gently
    above on the wire.

    Red berries hang
    low on a limb.

    Hawk lifts swiftly
    off the ground.

    Soft breeze stirs
    feathery Mimosa blooms.

    Dew drops glisten
    atop blades of grass.

    Pedestrian footfalls
    eyes and ear alert.

    Azure sky domes
    over us all.

    Reply
    • Megan Willome says

      September 29, 2017 at 9:16 am

      Katie, in addition to the specific images, I love how your poem is arranged in couplets, almost like footprints.

      Reply
      • Katie says

        September 29, 2017 at 9:58 am

        Thank you Megan:)

        Reply
        • Sharon says

          September 29, 2017 at 6:31 pm

          Lovely

          Reply
  2. Debbie Crawford says

    September 30, 2017 at 1:12 pm

    New Every Morning

    Leaves crunch and
    acorns pop
    under each step.
    The sun radiates
    through the tree branches-
    nature’s stained-glass window.
    Like a diamond sparkles,
    Morning dew glistens
    across an open field.
    A baby doe and her mama
    graze peacefully
    as a crow caws
    greetings from above.
    God’s mercies are
    new every morning.
    A silent amen
    fills my soul as I
    smile into the sun.

    Reply
    • Katie says

      September 30, 2017 at 9:52 pm

      So beautiful, Debbie. Praise be to God!

      Reply
  3. Megan Willome says

    September 30, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    Debbie, it must already be fall there–I can see it in your poem. Here it’s just not-hot.

    Reply
  4. Prasanta says

    October 4, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    A Walk

    filtering moments for a day
    preamble or postscript

    a pocket of ordinary
    revealed, beheld

    meaningless trampled bushes
    and upright roses

    humble crawl of insects close to the ground
    sizzle of a whizzing bee

    ruffle of leaves whispering above
    sunlight drizzling through trees

    a dog barks from a window
    a lonely old woman pulls out weeds

    an elderly man walks his dog at a leisurely pace—
    he chooses mid-day

    a car shifts several feet away
    from exploring feet

    we can trace — and track —
    steps strapped to a wrist

    to measure, manipulate
    plan, plot

    do more, do less
    or compare

    or else continue with hands open
    ready to sip the world

    and wonder at the sorrow and joy —
    commonplace scenes framing the day

    Reply
    • Megan Willome says

      October 5, 2017 at 9:59 am

      So much here, Prasanta! I love “preamble and postscript.” Also the various people in your poem.

      Reply

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