Member-only story
Paper Poetry’s February 2025 prompt
Manifest Your Way into Poetry
It’s that or the crazy pants!
Greetings to our Paper Poetry friends,
One month into 2025 and soooooo much has happened already. What a crazy pants world we live in!
And if that’s not enough, Medium has been doing its own crazy pants dance this past month. I don’t know about you, but I’m a ‘go with the flow’ kind of dancer, happy to sway, jig ’n’ jive to the vibe somewhere over there on the far side of the dance floor.
Ah, but not this time.
I can’t pick the rhythm. It’s messing with my head, making me tip sideways like I have two left feet tied together.
I don’t like being unstable. And I sure don’t like being trapped in a corner. Please don’t provoke me — if you do, I might bite!
Yes, it’s a crazy pants world and we need to arm ourselves for it the best way we can. And that’s what we encouraged you to do with our January prompt: armor.
Despite Medium’s arrhythmic gyrations, we received a quiver of poems each one feathered with its own touch of class. Special mention to EFHL who fired 10 submissions in our direction, all of them hitting the mark. An outstanding stand-out performance. We bow to you, EFHL. 🙏😌
EFHL’s armor poetry collection: ➸ Frost’s Bite ➸ Duck Coat ➸ Light Armor ➸ Social Armor ➸ The Silken Safe House ➸ Body Armor ➸ A Natural Nomad ➸ Knight of the Brook Bed ➸ Armored by a Shield of Swords ➸ A Crown of Swords
Reinforcing EFHL’s armory of poems was an amazing variety of poetry from our equally amazing poets —
♜ Armed with Words — a poem of truth and love — by Esther Spurrill-Jones
♜ Focusing on Good — by Indubala Kachhawa
♜ Battle Ballad — by A. Gee
♜ The Boy — by Einav Toren
♜ They Slay Us as They Keep Us Near — by Tree Langdon
♜ What I Eat in a Day for Defense — by Gloria D. Gonsalves
♜ Dreaming in Blue — by Maria Khalid
♜ You Are My Armor — by Carolyn Hastings
♜ A Rose’s Armor — by Sinus Kosinus
