Abandonment issues, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 poetry challenge, set by Poet of the Week, Punam Sharma. The guideline: write a pantoum about the theme of abandonment. You can find Punam’s prompt poem and the full guidelines here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/03/22/w3-prompt-47-weave-written-weekly/. Regular readers of my poetry blog know, of course, that I’m not much of a ‘rhymer’.

Wallflower, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 poetry challenge, set by Poet of the Week, David Bogomolny. The guideline: Write a poem from the perspective of an inanimate household object, using personification. You can find the full guidelines and David’s prompt poem here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/03/08/w3-prompt-45-weave-written-weekly/ So, a household object? Don’t ask why, but I chose my

Breaking news: Fortingall Yew to publish tell-all memoir! Villagers upset!

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 poetry challenge, set by Poet of the Week, Selma Martin. The guidelines: write a prose poem that reads like a breaking news story. You can find the full guidelines and Selma’s prompt poem here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/03/01/w3-prompt-44-weave-written-weekly/. So of course, none of this is true. I wish! The Fortingall Yew,

When the present looks like the past, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 poetry challenge, set by Poet of the Week, Kerfe Roig. You can find the full prompt guidelines and Kerfe’s poem here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/02/22/w3-prompt-43-weave-written-weekly/. Kerfe asks us to write a haibun that contrasts past and present. This morning, I looked outside my window, and the present felt very much so

Every day, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 poetry challenge, set by Poet of the Week, Tanmay Philip. You can find Tanmay’s prompt poem and guidelines by clicking on this link: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/02/15/w3-prompt-42-weave-written-weekly/ This is my first puente poem. I think I like the form. I loved Tanmay’s request for a song title as the middle stanza.

soul, by Britta Benson

In this week’s W3 poetry challenge, Poet of the Week Angela Wilson, asks us to use a haiku (written by somebody other than ourselves) as basis for a golden shovel poem. I came up with an idea. Currently, I’m using Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’ as source for blackout poems. So, today, I’ve produced a haiku –

Concrete Jungle, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 Poetry Challenge, set by Poet of the Week, Jaideep Khanduja. The challenge this week: write a tanka about urban landscapes, must include personification and the words ‘concrete jungle’. You can find the complete guidelines as well as Jaideep’s prompt poem by clicking on this link: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/02/01/w3-prompt-40-weave-written-weekly/ I loved

Where did you go? by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 poetry prompt, set by poet of the week Brandon Ellrich. The challenge this week: Write a riddle or puzzle poem. You can find the full guidelines as well as Brandon’s prompt poem here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/01/25/w3-prompt-39-weave-written-weekly/ My contribution is not much of a riddle. You’ll instantly know what I’m talking

Seize the day, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 poetry challenge. The guideline, set by Denise DeVries: Use a random word or first line generator as inspiration for your poem. You can find the full guidelines and Denise’s prompt poem here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/01/18/w3-prompt-38-weave-written-weekly/ So, I did just that. I used a random word generator, set it at 6

This is also me, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 poetry challenge, set by Sarah David. The guidelines: write about the theme of ‘dreams’ in 14 lines or less. You can find Sarah’s prompt poem and the full guidelines here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/01/11/w3-prompt-37-weave-written-weekly/ This is also me This is also me, treading on thinnest clouds, sands of time, rivers called