Adam Fenner's Blog, page 26

Bitter draught

Second coffee, before the sun
Bitter draught awakens spirits

Quietly to not awaken, them
Brooding creatures, darkness slumbers

Feet pound overhead
Dresser bangs, sweatpants selection

Good morning Daddy
Good morning Buddy

WordPress is not letting me answer prompts today, I guess I’m locked out now. Still tagging in, I’ll have to find another prompt generator to keep me going. This has been actig as my morning routine for a while. A bit of exercise. And like most workouts, I strike out, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t bother. I appreciate anyone who takes a moment out of their day to read my poetry.

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Weak impression

Daily writing promptWhat was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?View all responses

Query, question, curious inquiry
Random thought, nearly forgotten

Historical tidbit, pop culture icon
Knowledge sought, already lost

Easily satisfied quest fulfilled
Passing interest, weak impression

The power and weakness of eaily gained knowledge, is the weak impression it leaves. I will often follow my curiosity through articles and scholarship on a topic. And when it is done, all i’m left is a bit light connection to the topic, something just out of grasp that I need to reach for if I want to recall the details later.

I tried to answer the daily prompt, but I had already answered it, and several others. I guess the list isn’t that long here at WordPress. Draining the well after nearly a year of this.

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Ascent

Daily writing promptTell us about the last thing you got excited about.View all responses

Excitement, exciting exiting
Elations departing emotion

Peaks and valleys aroused
Level terrain elicits boredom

Ground swells invitations
Mountain crags challenge

Ascent from the descent
Excitement measured

This feels like a variation of a prompt from earlier in the week. Not much more to add on the topic but some sloppy word play while I sip my coffee.

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Community garden

Daily writing promptHow would you design the city of the future?View all responses

Earthly sprawl, urban growth
Gardens green, lawns replaced

Decentralized supply chains
Neighborhood gardens, shops

Walking distance, necessities
Parked cars, collecting dust

Idealized future, communities
Homes, gardens, and families

Cities are social structures, economically effective at bringing people together and creating an engine for generating transactions. But that isn’t always the goal, or healthy. It isn’t healthy for people, or for the planet. Not decrying them, they have a purpose. There is an overall benefit for the centralization of that activity and its ability to spread out within a region, downsides too. Not really the point of this post. But when I think about community, I think about neighbors sharing the products of their gardens, and kids riding their bikes to a local store to buy bread, maybe a treat too. When we allow for communities to be zoned for this kind of decentralized shopping, and less reliance on big box stores, these things can thrive. Not the most economically advantageous, but there are ecological benefits. We are products of our ecosystem after all.

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Name?

Daily writing promptWhere did your name come from?View all responses

Earthly origins, original sin
Cycle of birth, deadly journey

Curse of knowledge, toil
Hands of clay, service to…

Innocence, paradise, lost
Forgotten purpose, repent

What is in a name, creation
Knowledge, sin, purpose

We have definitely done this one before.

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Hustler

Daily writing promptWhat motivates you?View all responses

Stimulation, motivation
Elaborate enervation

A problem, for its own sake
Challenges, my own place

Rat race, zero sum competition
Moving goalpost, always more

Me me me, beside me stands
My opponent, yesterday me

Racer’s pistol burst, bills to pay
Inflation, erases gains, hustler

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Moving experience

Daily writing promptWhat are your top ten favorite movies?View all responses

Popcorn, candy
And my buddy

Apprehension
Enthusiasm

Giant monsters
Epic robots

Evil villains
Ready heroes

Fidgeting companion
Settles in my lap

Credits roll
Sticky floor

How was it?
Delightful roar

The best movies, are like the best songs. It is as much about the artistic production as the experience poured into them.

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Writing outflow, reading inflow

Daily writing promptWhat do you enjoy most about writing?View all responses

Stories told, writing path
Pressure builds, released

Daily challenges, explored
Packaged, bottled, shared

Fears and fantasies faced
Consequences considered

Productive output, outflow
Daily discipline, creation

Hopeful reader’s delight
Helpful lessons concealed

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Neighborhood

Daily writing promptWhat do you love about where you live?View all responses

Green palette, painted neighborhood
Wind blown brushes, leaves dance

Prancing babies, spotted fawns stumble
Mothers guide, meandering stroll

Savage tenderness, nature’s games
Except my neighbor’s dog, ugh

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Peppy rollercoaster

Daily writing promptWhat positive emotion do you feel most often?View all responses

Positive emotions
Rollercoaster ride

Leveled approach
Reduce the lows

Stoic outlook
Everyday calm

Title probably suggests there would be more to this one. Still catching up on sleep I suppose. Long week. My personality always leans toward the more leveled approach of stoicism. I try not to have too many highs, because there is always a down from there.

As a final comment, the goal is never to erase emotions, being a robot. Only to manage them, too many highs are a problem, as much as too low of lows.

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