It's Dr Anna Percy here with a prompt for the Daily Aftershock. I'm asking you to try and find a very large piece of paper which might for you mean A4 but if you have a large drawing pad preferably unlined, that would be a good piece of paper, or stick two pieces of paper together for this prompt.
So I want you to think about a kissing gate, which is a kind of gate that exists in the countryside, usually to stop animals like sheep and cows from getting from one field to another but because of the way that the gate is formed with a u-shape that holds the gate it's sort of always open and always closed which i find an interesting liminal subject to think about to start with and i want you to write the word kissing gate in one far corner of your blank piece of paper and then write in the furthest corner that you can find sunlight
and you're taking this poem on a journey between those two words.
If those words mean nothing and you prefer to think of another two, like to write between one word and sunlight. In that case, this is a very adaptable exercise, but think about the liminal qualities of a kissing gate and moving into the sunlight through one.
In short:
Write Kissing Gate on one corner of a sheet of plain paper as big a sheet of paper as you can find and Sunlight on the farthest corner. Write a journey between these two words or any words of your choosing.
Share this post