Day: February 17, 2020

This prompt today, is one that could well bring some lovely poems into the world. Emotions are important in poetry, and the prompt for today sure has emotion, love?, hate, a bit of jealousy, but one hopes, with best of friends, mostly respect and much affection, bordering on love.

There’s not much more intense than the relationship you might have with friends. As kids we learn about taking turns, sharing, and these things remain into adult friendships too, but ‘big kids’ have many more emotions happening in friendships. Love is a much nuanced thing.

Is is it wrong to call our pets ‘friends’? Can humans be friends with animals? I know what I think, what do you think? And the relationship animals have with each other, is that friendship? Dogs together, is that a pack or are they friends, what things make that friendship. if you think it IS friendship? And what if you throw a cat in there too? Friends?

What are friends, and do acquaintances become friends in time, or are they tow different things. Does shared experience make people friends, and if so, why? Shared understanding, appreciation, helping each other, being successful together, all good things, or can some of those things make a friendship sour, go off? Or even end?

Lots of things there, and here’s some more – Did you have a best friend as a child? Are you both still friends? If so, what’s that like, and if not, the same … Can we be friends with our parents? Or is that relationship just not the same? Can we morph from child and parent, and then become friends with a parent when we become adults? If so, when? Nuance, nuance, nuance, I say!

Have a friendly time, thinking and writing about friendship.

(oops, in my excitement with the writing prompt, I accidentally posted it a day early!)

Are there limits to what you might do, how high you may climb, how far down you may dive? Are there limits to what you’d do for someone else? Could you ever give your all to a charity, political party, refugee seeking a home? 

Could you ever do the biggest thing a person can do? For this writing prompt, take a look at what some others have done, the heights they’ve reached, the fullness of their giving – a kidney, a lifetime of service, a child … 

Or look at the reverse side, could you ever go against your own moral code, and do bad things? Could you ever steal? Or hurt someone else, or a pet? Could you ever be the kind of person you despise for their nastiness? 

Giving, bravery, taking, cowardice, all of these and many more ‘big things’ could come into your thinking for this prompt. There are wonderful people in the world doing awesomely good things. Write about that, perhaps focus on one and use them as your prompt, looking at whether you may one day do something similar, or why you think your couldn’t do that …

Or could you ever be the person who beat their dog, child, spouse? Or who stole from a loved one, the government, their employer, and used the money for funding your own guilty obsession … Could you ever be that person, hated by others, and inwardly, by yourself?

What are the limits of your physical abilities – could you ever run in a marathon, and do well? Could you ever lift your own weight? Could you ever climb a tree, a mountain? Could you ever break through, and become rich and famous? Could you ever become a nun, priest, politician, criminal, actor, stand up comedian, rock star, best selling writer?

Could you, should you, will you, or won’t you? If you think you could, what will it take? Or the opposite, why could you never … whatever? Why not? Write about it, creatively!

Are your morals and ethics strong enough to prevent the bad things? Have there been times you ever acted against your own moral code? How did it feel, what was the thing, and the reason for it? 

These things and so much more, are all part of the writing prompt for today: COULD YOU EVER …