Hi everyone! We have a guest host for today’s poetics, M!
LIMBO – Short Film by by SimonWildtVisuals.
Welcome to the last dayof Glo/NaPoWriMo.
For those of you who managed a poem a day this month – congratulations!
For those of you (like me) who didn’t – well, there’s always November. Or the rest of the year, for that matter – after all, who says you can’t continue to write every day?
Many of us will take some time off, however.
You might say, poetry will be in limbo.
Others will gyrate and twist and continue to stretch – to do the limbo, as it were, and keep writing.
So today, the prompt is Limbo – a word that has very different meanings.
Are you in limbo, waiting, in some aspect of your life? for NaPoWriMo to finally end?
Do you contort yourself to meet this or that requirement?
You need NOT incorporate both meanings, or even use the word itself – use a synonym, if it suits you.
Since it’s been a long month, try to keep it under 100 words.
Or even try a “55” – see previous prompt here: https://dversepoets.com/2013/12/05/55shades/
Link your poem, then bend over backwards and visit your fellow poets.
~ M
M occasionally blogs at grapeling.
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Welcome to poetics everyone! It is the last day of April daily writing challenge – congrats to those who have accomplished this.
Thanks M for hosting this prompt.
Thanks for inviting me, Grace ~
Hi M and All. Limbo could describe the weather here, as it never warms up enough to get things rolling into Spring. Interesting prompt and poetry/videos to go with it. May I never have a groundhog day like that first video!
Weather here has been erratic – cold and a bit warm like spring. I know that video is something else. Hopefully we are not in that limbo land.
It is an intriguing video, isn’t it? Thanks for joining in ~
Yes it is. You are welcome.
I hope to finish the last 8 or so days of napowrimo
Good for you! One can keep on writing and getting inspiration from any sources.
Yes.
I’m too far behind to do that – my hat’s off to you ~
Theologians say that aborted babies are in Limbo, other theologians say that at the end of TIME, God will give them a chance, an opportunity such as we have now, to choose good or evil.
Congratulations to all those who were inspired to write each day, for myself, I can’t write for the sake of writing it has to come from within only now and then does that happen.
Thanks for stopping in ~
I’m currently in limbo on a train, on my way home. The Internet is unreliable, so I’ll have to catch up in the morning.
limbo-net – when they set the bar too low to meet ~
My take on Limbo takes me back to Dante and his image of Limbo
a classic, Bjorn ~
An inspired prompt and even though I did not do NaPoWriMo I was glad for the word count restriction =- managed 100 plus title.
Well, Laura, it’s too late in the month to get into too-long poems! ~
I am not familiar with the meaning of 55 words… is it a poetic form or something like a Quadrille? I have not been around long enough to know.
It’s like a quadrille, yes. Just, 55 words. no form requirement otherwise. ~
Thank you!
Thank you for the prompt, M! I added one and hope it didn’t stray too far from limbo.
Frank, on the last day of Napwrimo, *any* contribution is on-prompt, so far as I’m concerned ~
Looking forward to reading all the prompts! Thanks !
Thanks for hosting, M! I enjoyed this prompt.
Glad you could join ~
Thank you for hosting today M/Grapeling. Quite ironically, and perhaps amazingly, I wrote a poem precisely about being in limbo (“one foot still in this mortal realm
soul resigned to embarkation“) for yesterday’s Sunday Muse, so it is now doing double duty.
Thanks for joining us Rob.
you must have divined it beforehand 🙂 ~
Hello All- Thank you for hosting M. I am going to give this a go tomorrow- I went the distance for NaPoWriMo and my muse needs a nap.
The NaPoWriMo can be tiring, so by all means, give it a nap. See you Linda.
Thanks Grace.
I may not have joined myself but Grace kinda made me. 🙂 ~
Haha! Well, welcome.
Thank you for hosting!
So much nowadays is in some form of limbo that some may think it almost mundane … though to me, antsy as I am, it is not and cannot be.
I’ve added my contribution to the linky, for those who want to see …
Copied here, too FWIW …
https://naamayehuda.com/2019/04/30/learned-limbo/
Na’ama
Glad you could add your voice ~
🙂 Thanks! Truth is, I’m quite verbose … and thus am rather had to shut up … 😉
I really like this prompt and loved Seamus Heaney’s poem. Heartrending. Okay, now here I go. Big footprints to fill. To try to fill.
ever go to the beach and walk in someone else’s prints? all gets washed away anyways, so I say, keep stepping in ~
It’s a strange sensation simply because everyone has such a different gait. I remember doing this as a child and having to leap out to the next footprint.
Hi M. Thanks for hosting. I’m late to posting, as usual. Happy May Day, All!
I’ll be back to read in a bit. After NaPoWriMo, I’m behind on all my work.
I’m so far behind I’ll never catch up. Glad you could join in ~
Good Morning M! I’m adding mine this morning. I’ll be reading a bit later. Getting my hair done!
I put on a hat 🙂 ~