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Posts tagged ‘grief’

Daily Prompt <3 Two Lives

12 May 2016

“I called to say we have two lives/and only one of them is real.”~Claudia Rankine

 

Make art about the multiple lives we live.

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Grief, Gratitude, and Finding Best Friends

3 /4/2016

I have Complicated Grief-Related PTSD. Some days I’m okay. Some days I think I’m okay, then I’m just—not, not okay at all.

Make art about grief.

grief-reaction

3/5/2016

The only way I have survived the extreme loss I’ve experienced in my life is by making a choice every day, sometimes every moment, to live not in grief, but in Gratitude.

Make art about Gratitude.

gratitude-rock

3/6/2016

Both my sons were home this weekend, and one of my greatest joys is to see them together as grown men, not just brothers, but friends. My best friend was my brother, and my oldest son once said, “How cool it is—to find your own best friend right in your family!”

Make art about siblings as friends.

boys

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Born of Sadness

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“Call it a night. O soul. Flow on. Instead.”~CD Wright
 
Make art about the eternal flow.
cosmic flow

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Sometimes The Prompt Stops You Cold

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“I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.”~Sir Thomas Wyatt
 
Make art about the first freeze, about the big freeze, about freezing, or being frozen.
 
‪ice sculpture 2-1

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Sometimes the Prompt Is All Wet

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“..the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open…”~Herman Melville

Make art about the mythologies of water.

water-life-crop

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Sometimes the Prompt Is A Tender Touch

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Thinkin of all the loving care my nurse mama and sister gave their patients for decades.

Make art about nurses, about caretakers.

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american nurse

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Sometimes the Prompt Comes to an End

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Last day of grading, semester ending. Make art about something coming to an end.
 
endings

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Naming & Healing

12/5/2015

I haven’t put up a Christmas tree since 2011, the year both my husband and brother walked on to the next life. This year, I’m finally putting one up again, and covering it with crazy little angels I’ve been handmaking from clay and fabric for several weeks. I’m calling it my Healing Tree. Make art about healing.

12/6/2015

Quiet Sunday morning with my son.  Make art about quiet.

12/7/2015

“So many names, my mother, I’m never sure what to call you.”~Rudy Make art about names, about naming.

Itty Bitty Angel Tree

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A Very Special Call For Submissions: HIV Here & Now Project

The HIV Here & Now Project uses poetry and flash prose to advocate for a world without HIV or AIDS.

#hivtest #hivtreat #hivprevent #nohivshame #nohivstigma

Please submit your work to the HIV Here & Now Project!

Details on submission guidelines, as well as suggested prompts, are below.

Please share widely!

Huge thanks and appreciation to Michael H. Broder for his tireless and necessary work with the HIV Here & Now Project!

Poetry and Nonfiction: Visit the website for more details.

Curator Michael Broder writes:

“I’m very proud of the variety of poets featured to date on HIV Here & Now Project and grateful to the 180 poets whose work has appeared on the site to date. If you are my friend and a poet, please join them. Write a poem for the site and send it to me via Facebook message, the HIV Here & Now website, or Submittable ( https://indolentbooks.submittable.com/submit)

A lot of my poet friends respond well to prompts.

Here are some to consider:

Write a poem in the voice of an HIV virion (virus)
Write a poem in the voice of a CD4 cell (T-cell) being attacked by an HIV virion
Write a poem about a time you had unprotected sex with a partner whose HIV status you did not know
Write a poem about a time you had sex, protected or unprotected, with someone you knew was HIV-positive and how his or her status affected the experience
Write a poem about someone you know who died of AIDS
Write a poem about someone you know who is HIV-positive
Write a poem in your own voice imagining you were just handed an HIV diagnosis
Write a poem in your own voice imagining your mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, cousin, niece, nephew, best friend, beloved teacher, cherished mentor just told you they were HIV-positive

Subscribe and support this project in any way you can, please!

Thanks!

HIV Here & Now Project

http://www.hivhereandnow.com/

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Sometimes the Prompt Has Wings

Daily Prompt 

“Angels affect us oft”~John Donne

I’m putting up my first Christmas tree since my husband and brother passed on in 2011. So, I’m a little obsessed right now with making angel ornaments.

Make art about angels.

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