Prompt #1 || Take Off the Collar || Blog Post #2

Prompt #1 : Come up with a poem about an object/thing that describes you or another/made up person. (Use analogies, similes, metaphors, etc.)


Take off the collar - By Kendall Fry

I resemble a sad puppy.

I am told what to do, when to do it, and maybe I can have what I want.

I feel the weight of the collar on my shoulders.

I don't want to be controlled.

He holds me by a leash more than once a day.

Pulling me by my neck until I feel like I can't breath.

They resemble a noose.

The collar is feeling heavier now.

I can no longer keep my head up high.

I have disowned myself.

I see my kind frolicking around in freedom.

A vast meadow of opportunities.

They give me the strength to finally look up at him.

I need to take off my collar.

Take off my collar and get lost.

So lost that he will never find a trace of me ever again.

I'm not his bitch anymore.

I can stand on my own two feet now.

When I took off the collar, I was no longer his property.

I am free to discover any meadow I want.

I'm allowed to run.

We, as women, should not resemble a defenseless animal

We do not stay.

We do not sit.

And we definitely do not roll over.

We are our own property.

Creative Writing Prompts for the Summer || Blog Post #1

Prompt List:

1. Come up with a poem about an object/thing that describes you or another/made up person. (Use analogies, similes, metaphors, etc.)
2. Write an intense short story about an empty class
3. Take a picture of a person from a magazine and write their made up life story
4. Begin a story with “There was once a chance I didn’t take…”
5. Choose a poem you like. Take the last line of it and use it as the first line in your own poem.
6. Write a story through the perspective of someone who suffers from a serious illness.
7. A drunk man sits next to you in a bar, thinks you’re his “buddy” and starts confessing “the truth”. Write a short story about this.
8. Re-write a fairy tale that didn’t go the way it was supposed to (Ex: Cinderella didn't drop her shoe or never had a fairy godmother)
9. Begin a poem with “I thought I saw…”
10. List 3 things you can find at a hospital and write a short story about them in a setting that’s not in a hospital or near one.
11. Begin a poem with “ I wish someone told me…”
12. Write a short story about a day in the life of a window washer using only his/her inner thoughts