Poetic Flash Mobs
an NCiR’ prompt
The best writers’ prompts are those that materialize from thin air and combust spontaneously into spectacular starbursts of creativity.
Spontaneous Prompts
… we might call them. Then there is that even more rare phenomenon, the spontaneous prompt made up of poems.
Poetic Flash Mobs
… if you will.
Such a once-in-a-blue-moon instance of lyrical alchemy played out this past week, when one of our favorite writers penned a particularly thought-provoking and well-crafted piece of rhyming observational humor.
The topic was :
At the Zoo
… and it inspired each member of our NCiR’ Editorial Team to craft his or her unique variation on the theme.
I will keep this newsletter short. The challenge I present to you is two-fold:
- See if, after reading or re-visiting the poems below, you are inspired to carry the theme forward. We’d love to see your take on the topic, on the pages of NCiR’.
- Help us spread the joy of humorous, irreverent, edgy poetry — share this newsletter and our publication with friends, loved ones, fellow artists — let’s grow the family.
Here is the original At the Zoo, and the three responses:
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Thanks, and Keep Rhymin’!
