Write Around the Corner Meeting Prompts 6/6/2020

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Invitation to write: Cultivating Courage

 

#2. Everyone shared in the chat a quote from a book, song, or poem. We all chose someone else's to write about. Here are the submissions:

Laurie: "Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, [she] would hold them in their hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain. (from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak)

Melody: "There will be no white flag above my door."  (from song "White Flag" sung by Dido, composed by Dido, Rollo Armstrong, and Rick Nowels)

Jen: "Stay gold, Ponyboy" (from The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton)

Kara: "A million people come and go through a person's ebb and flow, and times they keep on changin', while they're changin' by" ("Head Full of Ideas" performed by 311, written by Douglas Martinez and Nicholas Hexum)

Maureen:  "Teach your children well, their father's hell will slowly go by" ("Teach Your Children" performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, composed by Graham Nash)

Helen: "He just didn't know that whatever falls from the sky shall not be cursed. And that includes the rain." (from The Bastard of Istanbul written by Elif Sharaf)

Glen: "Dear poetry, you are the special friend who accepts every word" written by a 5th grader


#3 Let me tell you a story about...

Find something in your house that has an interesting little story about it. Write the story!