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advent, Alice in Wonderland, heading towards christmas, let's light a candle and talk poetry, poetry prompts, pre-christmas poetry
…smiles… that’s about the only thing probably that Alice in Wonderland and Advent… the pre-christmas time have in common… still… both are our inspiration servers for Poetics this week… and why’s that…?
Because both of them are timely topics — we’re right in the middle of Advent (one day I will share my Advent wreath story… i LOVE Advent wreaths… and my fam FEARS the day of the first of Advent cause they never know what off-beat piece they have to endure for the next four weeks in our living room… yes… they’re suffering.. badly… smiles)
And Alice..? Well… I very seldom watch tv – but I did last week and by accident stumbled into the Alice in Wonderland movie with Johnny Depp playing the hatter and Ann Hathaway the white queen… and I loved it.. and it moved me on a deeper level… and I was carrying some thoughts around me still when I boarded the train to Munich…
so… it’s your choice… you can either write a pre-christmas Advent poem… preparation… tradition…decoration… share your Advent story with us or even give the christmas decoration a voice
or… write an Alice in Wonderland poem… about her, one of the characters or in the style of it.. off-beat conversations.. poems which tell a wondrous story… let’s fly a bit… smiles
And if you’re here for the first time…. this is how it works..
- Write a poem that fits the prompt above
- Post it on your blog then copy the direct URL to your poem and copy it together with your name in the Mr. Linky widget above
- Read others that have linked up with us as well and leave them a comment on their blog
- Have fun… and most important… beware of the Jabberwocky… smiles
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Gauntlet thrown down – challenge accepted! Thank you, Claudia! 🙂
ah this is where the brave women are… smiles… enjoyed your piece freya
Hello, Mulled whine and gingerbread for me thanks… I do enjoy advent quite a lot… Here in Sweden we light a lot of candles to drive the darkness away.. but I could do without some of the Christmas shopping.. happy saturday to you all
ah…mulled whine and gingerbread sounds good… i enjoy advent as well… we have quite some christmas markets in our area which lights the dark in a beautiful way as well
Oh, I love Christmas markets. I would love to be in Germany to be able to visit one this time of year. (If you visit the Poets United Website tomorrow, even if you don’t share a poem, you will see Christmas market photos as well.) The closest Christmas market to me here is in Chicago. They have one there every year, modeled after the German market. I HAVE visited that one.
There are Christmas markets all over here in Stockholm area.. both food and Christmas decorations.. maybe driving to a castle market would be something tomorrow.
Oh, that sounds wonderful, Bjorn!!
castle market sounds very cool… in basel the christmas market is next to the old cathedral… beautiful atmosphere..
Hi Claudia, I will look forward to reading your advent wreathe story someday. Smiles. I have never seen the Alice in Wonderland movie you mentioned. I remember being in a theater when there were coming attractions & thinking the movie was a bit frightening, one NOT to take my grandchildren to. What would your viewpoint be on that? One for kids or not?
i know that alice frightened the bones out of me when i was a kid… maybe it’s more a story for grown ups than for kids…or maybe that’s just me… i’m over-sensitive… i loved that alice movie with johnny depp… think you should watch it first though…and then decide if you take the little ones…
I do think it might be more for grown-ups, Claudia. Actually there are a lot of stories we read when we were young that were really scary, when you think about it. Hansel and Gretel, Snow White (with the queen with the poisoned apple), etc. Ha, even Humpty Dumpty in the nursery rhyme, as I think about it too.
smiles….i think many of them were not originally written for children but due to their nature were relegated to children…i remember some fear around alice as well…i remember watching the movie on tv when i was young…
I do think you are right, Brian.
so i wanna see your wreath claudia…smiles…christmas def gets a little like the mad hatter to me…nice relaxing day here….with the ice storm coming in this evening i may be stuck in the house for a few days….
maybe you can even ice-skate in the driveway….smiles
Advent or Alice, lovely challenges Claudia ~ We should see that wreath sometime perhaps ~ Wishing you all lovely Saturday ~
haha…that wreath… it’s made of old wood that is pressed and painted white… and then…there’s only space for three candles inside… (i miscalculated it a bit..ha..) so one has to be a bystander… you know…. my husband almost got a heart attack…smiles
I have not seen the film you mention Claudia. As for the book, I read it a long time ago and have few vivid memories of it so I opted for Advent! Enjoy the holiday season, Claudia!
i have to read the book again… loved how you captured the advent spirit gabriella
Really fun prompt, Claudia. Two unlikely topics but great to have a choice. I love Advent too. I’d like to write one of each but will post them another time. Just can’t spend much time on the computer right now. Perhaps Advent for my Monday post.
cool victoria… will look for it on monday…
oooh my favourite movie…I’d love to write about that one, am out all day but will see if I can write one…wonderful prompt! 😉
have fun being out…and will look for you tonight di…
ah nice… yes…have fun being out and looking forward to what you’re coming up with di..
Advent to me is more of a gradual realization that once again Christmas is upon us. In all its glory, or possibly, its repetitiveness. No escape. Hoping against hope that it will actually renew feelings of peace and goodwill in a world of turmoil.
Not my best time of the year.
i hear you… the real meaning of christmas gets burried under all the hectic and consumerism sometimes….
ok – bedtime for me over here… will check back in in the morning and catch up with the overnites…. see you…
sleep well c
A repeat from me, but we did get another Lego calendar this year, and I do love my Lego calendar!
i am slightly jealous your lego calendar, though i believe santa may be bringing some legos..
Hi Claudia,
Both prompts are lovely and as soon as I read this, I got an idea – which is of course about Alice. Am sure it can be a good poem if I complete it on time. Looking forward what people have written.
cool…look forward to yours man…
I just managed, as finally my little one decided to sleep a bit and gave me a little time to write 🙂
oh nice… will be over in a bit… and will be very quiet to not wake up the little one…smiles
It’s impossible for me to pass up Alice but my mind is not working. I did try. Thoughts not flowing well. Thank you for helping me to grind some gears though.
smiles…be over in a few moments…
alice is def easy inspiration…
This is my first time writing here…hope I got it right. 🙂 Was immediately drawn to the Alice theme
welcome to dverse anja….appreciated your verse…and the images you put with it as well…
Thank you
yep…and sorry for the delay on approving your comment…just have to do that the first time and you should be good to go…
Oh that’s fine. 🙂 I didn’t even notice.
Ah.. Iook forward to that Anja.. Love your writing..
Claudia – how can I choose? Maybe they will both appear on the ‘morrow! 🙂 We shall see!
Great prompt, and I can’t wait to see your wreath, and to hear your story too!
look forward to it shanyn…you getting any winter weather?
we are supposed to have an ice storm that starts tonight and runs for 24 hours…oy…hope we keep power…
We are at -41 with the windchill today. Brutally cold but supposed to warm up into the week!
Stay warm and I hope you are a bit of a prepper, ice storms are NASTY!
As I think about what I might write for the great prompt, my mind keeps wishing for your Advent wreath stories/pictures!
show us what you got lydia…smiles.
Claudia– don’t know if this fits but I had fun with it. Thanks. K.
woot…will be over in a moment and see…smiles….happy saturday k…
ha – i can tell you had fun with it… and it fits…smiles
The Jabberwocky, hehehe, nice advice.
Thanks for the challenge, Claudia, and Happy Advent.
happy advent to you as well… and oh that jabberwocky…smiles
let’s fly! Great prompt Claudia – Happy writing everyone and hello Anja 🙂
hey you…you gonna bring something for us?
Hey right back at you my friend – I am writing as you speak 😉 it’s a little… mm weird, but I’m just letting it flow…. so heaven knows what will transpire..
ha. sounds like fun to me…i will be back late…watching a show with my wife and we are at an intermission…we are doing a marathon catch up on The Black List….
ahh yes – we have watched 😉 emailed…
emailed me?
did not get it…
hmm will retry
tkm?
btm
tkm is because wordpress will not take mine…
tis ok now – apologies – posted
smiles. of course now you have me curious….so i have to try to remember the password to that old account…smiles.
email and I shall stop the curioser and curioser lol
haha… so what kind of secret email things are going on here…? smiles
I wish the writer’s block would go away! Want to contribute something though 😉
Thanks, Claudia, for the fun prompt…now I am getting idea that wouldn’t come before..ha..
smiles….just stop believing in writers block…and you will be ok…
glad you found your idea….
First timer here. I saw the challenge through Anja’s entry and decided to take a crack at it myself, even though poetry is not my forte 😉 Hope you enjoy!
Ha.. nice to see you here…
warm welcome sir… enjoyed the surreal nature of your piece…fits so well with alice..
It is a tad challenging but hey, here goes.
good evening ros
Evening Brian. Well, morning here now. The time-difference has me ‘playing tag’ with your side of the world.
I had to research the Advent wreath–I had only heard of Advent calendars. Put me on the list to hear your story, Claudia. This was fun, but I did not get Alice in. Perhaps she would sing the Hallelujah Chorus. It’s almost 2 am here. I’ll be back to read this evening, when it’s really Sunday here.
smiles… she most probably would sing the hallelujah chorus… and the mad hatter as well maybe…smiles
I love both Advent and Alice! Planning to put up a tree today if one will fit in my car. And Alice (especially the Looking Glass volume) is one of my all-time favourite books. I hope you don’t mind if I link to an older poem of mine which was inspired precisely by Alice and the White Knight.
i don’t mind at all…enjoyed your poem marina sofia and have fun putting up the tree…
thanks marina…and hey i appreciate you dropping in over night…
have fun with the tree….
Went to bed without finishing reading.. Now heading out to read the night’s harvest.
just did that as well… good morning björn
Morning.. thank you for the prompt. Advent is such a good time for reflection.
good morning…coffee & poetry….smiles…and ice today…will be a day in doors so i will be around…
so everything’s frozen and you can ice skate outside… ? one year when i was a kid we had heavy ice rain and the main road in our town was frozen – we put on our skates and ice-skated up and down….oh that was fun… would love to do that again….smiles
everything is frozen…and if i step off the shelter of the porch i may ice skate down the steps..ha….just salted it…its is still coming down and is not supposed to stop til tomorrow…3/4 inch of ice they say…we stocked up yesterday in case we are in for a few days….painting christmas ornaments right now…
smiles… now take out that skates and the world is yours…smiles
painting christmas ornaments sounds cool….
Hi Claudia, I’m fashionably late for this prompt … smiles. I love the idea of Advent though my share turned out a bit blue. Smiles and thank you 🙂
you know… indigo blue is just perfect…. and yeah… you can def. feel terribly lonely in a crowd… happened a bit to me on my business trip to munich last week…ugh…
Thanks, Claudia! Glad you liked the shades of blue in my poem … yeah, indigo is nice … it actually has a spiritual meaning, I think … introspection … smiles.
oh that makes sense…
Aaah…
I thought I remembered Eartha Kitt singing Jam Tomorrow and Jam Yesterday but only found this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=susneEe-P5E
I thought I remembered Eartha Kitt jazz singing
Jam Tomorrow but can only find this one.
some of you might not have seen Jan Svankmajer’s stop frame animation Alice. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=svankmajer+alice+in+wonderland&sm=1
It is gothy and spooky.
oo you are loading us down with goodies…smiles.
when i was small
i fell in a rabbit hole
and learned origami
while my ankle recovered
so now i make sampan boats
and think of rabbits.
=)
Alice is an evocative prompt =)