Story Institute RamblingVerser - Episode 37 - Poems and Prompts

Published: Jan. 20, 2024, 5:01 p.m.

b'Poems from our forums and relationships found\\u2026\\n\\nFeatured Quotes:\\n\\u201cA single rose can be my garden\\u2026 a single friend, my world.\\u201d\\nLeo Buscaglia\\n\\n\\u201cLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.\\u201d\\nMarcel Proust\\n\\nFeatured Poem: One Word Is Too Often Profaned\\nBy: Percy Bysshe Shelley\\n\\nOne word is too often profaned\\u2028For me to profane it;\\u2028One feeling too falsely disdained\\u2028For thee to disdain it;\\u2028One hope is too like despair\\u2028For prudence to smother;\\u2028And pity from thee more dear\\u2028Than that from another.\\nI can give not what men call love;\\u2028But wilt thou accept not\\u2028The worship the heart lifts above\\u2028And the heavens reject not,\\u2028The desire of the moth for the star,\\u2028Of the night for the morrow,\\u2028The devotion to something afar\\u2028From the sphere of our sorrow?\\n\\n\\nPoems from our Forums:\\n\\nSomething Mystical\\u2028By: Lamar Cole\\n\\nSomething mystical happened today.\\u2028I felt your touch.\\u2028Even though you\\u2019re far away.\\u2028I felt your hands upon my face.\\u2028It seemed as though your sweet lips.\\u2028I could taste.\\nIt seemed as if I could feel your embrace.\\u2028It took me to a wonderful place\\u2028Because even when you\\u2019re far away.\\u2028I feel your love in every way.\\n\\nThirsty Soul\\u2028By:Lamar Cole\\n\\nLove, darling, is you.\\u2028Your love cascaded down the waterfalls of your heart.\\u2028To my thirsty soul.\\u2028Your love filled the crevices of my life.\\u2028Your love is my lighthouse.\\u2028My beacon in the night.\\u2028I found home in your heart.\\n\\nShort Story Topics \\u2013 Roll of the Dice\\n\\nWhat if our life did depend on the roll of a dice? A gambling woman would carry around her own dice. Every move, every call, she makes is determined by her roll. Each option is assigned a number that corresponds to the dots on the dice. One means she takes the bus to work; Five indicates she takes her bike. This is not always the best method, but she rolls them every day\\u2026she needs to roll them everyday.\\n\\nWhat event in her life triggered this behavior? Why is she bound to keep on rolling? Has she ever stopped trying? If she did, what happened? Did she lose her job? Did she lose a loved one? Did she go back a few spaces and start this round of her life over again\\u2026same house, same car, same trials and tribulations.\\n\\nWhat would the roll of the dice bring if it was on the edge? Does the woman wish to even think about it? Where did these dice come from? Who had them before her? Can she get rid of them? Or, do they end when her streak ends? Decide on the story, and write. Post it here, or share elsewhere, but write and enjoy\\u2026\\n\\nIf you are an author in search of readers or have comments about our show, contact us:\\nramblingverser@storyinstitute.com\\n\\n615-431-WRIT (9748)\\n\\n\\nRemember to Imagine, Enhance, & Grow Your Stories @ www.storyinstitute.com'