Won’t you play with me in the #vss365 (very short stories – 365 days a year) #prompt (the word you use when you create a Twitter-sized response in poetry or prose) challenges on Twitter?! This short activity is brain-teasing, gets the creative juices flowing, and starts each day with something other than your same ole’ thoughts revolving endlessly in your head!
It’s for everyone – from people who’ve never written poems or prose before all the way to real Pros! You can write something humorous, elegant, scary, or abstruse – whatever you want to do will work!
I tell you all about it in great detail when you Click Here. However, the purpose of this post is to share my responses to the #vss365 challenges for this week (below) and to quickly point you to where, on Twitter, you can join in the fun. There, you also can find the submissions of other writers. To learn more here, scroll to the bottom. But, first …. this week’s submissions….
October 2, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #shadow
Your #shadow
Overshadows
My Light
Time to Leave
October 1, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #stutter #tanka #31syllables
James Earl Jones reigned supreme over stutter and ethnicity enthralling all with
power and eloquence – a Thespian king
Famed actor, James Earl Jones
September 30, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #crepuscular
The meteor hurled itself
Against Europe’s crown jewel hub
Leaving all aflame in crepuscular haze
For days on end.
Once again, Nature proves itself a force
Greater than the constructs of mankind.
Maybe.
Of course, we shall build again.
It is the Spirit that prevails.
September 29, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #aim #tanka #31syllables
My aim is not as good as it should be when I try to hit the carnival duckies and hit the prize teddy bear instead. NO!
photo of a bandaged teddy bear by Conger Design
September 28, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #rivulet
Crisp air sails puffy clouds high aloft over the Rocky Mountains speckled gold and green with aspens and pines, the snowmelt having long ago devolved from waterfall to river to rivulet.
September 27, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #fret #tanka
Here I sit alone
Fretting an embossed dragon
On Black tapestry.
Fretting an embossed dragon
Into stark black emotions
Wondering if you’re alive.
September 25, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #prior #Haiku
I have a prior
conviction for the crime of
loving POCs.
Note: Some Things Never Change
Nancy Ayanna Wyatt wearing a dashiki many moons ago
@NancyKnowsLife Has ’em All! Better Yet ~
So Does Nancy’s Novelty #VSS365 Bits
You can see all of my submissions on my Twitter page, @NancyKnowsLife, since Twitter is the host for these challenges. Some are poems, some are in Haiku style, and some are prose.
You should check out ALL the writers’ work, as well. It is fascinating!
Uh Oh! The thing is that I post a lot of other stuff there, too, about wellness, art, photography, Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels, and many more topics. To see only the #Vss365 #prompt posts in one place on this website, Click Here. It will give you lots of examples to kickstart your imaginings.
Let’s have some fun sharing our very short stories and poems!
