| Composting Prompt Ingredients – Once a Week Prompt Directory |
| Everyone loves a creative push, a gentle nudge, and what better to sate that passion than a writing prompt? Something to stir the imagination, or to inspire the mind, tickle the fancy, provide a bit of a distraction, and maybe provide some entertainment along the way too? But why, Composting’ Prompt’ Ingredients? What’s that all about then? The secret to a great ‘compost’ heap is the ingredients. It’s a bit like a dash of this, a splash of that and a few drops of something else, as a witch might say when stirring up a cauldron concoction. Composting isn’t rocket science but gentle crafting and building your skills up, and eventually, you’ll find a balance that is right for you in your quest for gardener’s gold! Composting is all about knowing what you can add and the right ingredients. So if we were to say ‘composting prompt ingredients’, that is all about seeing what works with writing. Therefore, your ingredients might be prompt, inspiration, creativity, imagination, opinion, suggestion, provocation, controversy, moments, chance encounters, experiences, uniqueness, personality, individuality, perspective, reading, etc. Here it’s a case of teasing your curiosity out with a few choice distractions, and all the Earthly Comfort prompts are designed to allow your interpretation to create for you, allowing your mind to run wild. Be they questions to make you think or puzzles to make you wonder, or snippets of wordery to bring out your artisan crafts to bump and grind their way along with the keyboard – it’s all up to you and how you decide to express yourself and above all, it’s about having some fun! |
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| Season One – Game 6 |
| 4 -2-1 -The Life Within |
| Image Inspired Writing |
| Welcome to 4 – 2 – 1 – The Life Within 4 Images/2 Title Choices/1 Writer’s Creation You know you can see something unusual when taking photographs, something that catches your eyes and you think – l bet there’s a story or a life within that! Well, that’s what 4 – 2 – 1 is all about – the writer has four images of the item in question taken at different angles and with a different sleight added to the ambience, two different prompt title choices and one writer’s creation. The prompt requires the writer to look at the image gallery, figure out the best story, select one of the title suggestions only, and then create a story, poem or observation of their choice. |
| Pick one of the Title choices from below. |
| Bright Side of Life | Elephants in the Sun |
| What’s The Life Within? |
| I saw this pair of sunglasses one June Sunday morning at around 4.30am just sitting there on top of an upright log. No one else was around – they simply captivated me and l pondered upon their story, the life within. |
| So there we go folks! Looking forward to seeing what you create! Thanks for Reading, see you next Saturday! |
| My thanks to the following who particiapated in last weeks Game – 10 Ways To Dispose of a Body in the Back Garden |
Earthly Comforts 
Here’s mine, Rory – https://amanpan.blog/2022/09/18/for-all-in-life-there-is-a-season/
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Elephant in the Sun
I believe…
She is truly, a fairy in disguise
Like a tiny house mouse
Full of wonder and wise
Just look at those ears!
Such wings of surprise
No doubt, they carry her
Aloft, far and wide
To land in the treetops
Where she so often will hide
What would you call her,
This fairy-elephant, elephant-fairy
Fairest Fairiphant or Sweet Ellie-airy
Well, as it happened to pass
I was out looking for one
A wee mighty lass.
Along I went,
Bumping and bouncing
Down the dirt road
Where the safari itself
Is one’s real abode.
My search started early
With the sun in the East
Blinding my eyes,
Raged the heavenly beast,
Til the clouds pulled close
Their blanket of gray
So grateful I was
For their softening the way.
Up went my aviators
To the top of my head
And on with my journey
Yet hours… til bed.
On and on,
Jeep and I wrangled
When all at once my hair
Became unruly and tangled.
My glasses had flown
In the wind and the dust
Why oh why, had I
Dared so to trust
Gone, oh so gone
Forever they must
Left alone, all alone
In the infinite endless
…horizon of rust.
Day approached night
Yet, no Eleairy
Had I found in the light
Disheartened, I left,
The jeep and the road
..and all of the rest
To wander in silence
As the sun now slipped down
In the far away west…
Here was I, beleaguered and lost
Letting quiet and calm,
Replace muddled,
and tossed
Then… just before me
A tiny trunk raised
Through the greenest of grass
In the most emerald of glades.
Velvety gray
From her stem to her stern
How far had she traveled…
My sight to return….
– suzanne 🦋
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YAY of Yay Suzanne 🙂
Marvelously done and superbly versed, well done and thank you 🙂
I shall use this on one of the upcoming Lasting Thoughts also – thank you this is truly wonderful 🙂
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Thank you, for the inspiring prompt ☺️
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I am glad you found it so Suzanne, l feel it was lost on some – but l see you spotted what l did when l captured the images – so well done 🙂
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Oh yes! I saw an elephant straight away gently holding onto something of value for someone who had lost themselves. An absolutely wonderful capture on your part ☺️
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Thank you 🙂
I shall let you know when your poem is up, but it;ll be one day this week coming 🙂
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Thank you ☺️🌷
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Hi Rory, here’s mine;
http://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2022/09/19/4-2-1-a-story-about-bright-side-of-life/
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Bright side of life
Someone was probably wearing sunglasses at night 😎 🌙 🎶 lol
Set them down and because was night – forgot them lol 😘✌️
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Oh yes, of course, it will have been something as simple as that, tourists are always leaving something behind in that rea, mostly it’s rubbish, but a pair of Tortoiseshell sunglasses was new.
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Was probably someone like me – I buy cheapest sunglasses because I ALWAYS lose them lol ✌️
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