Images of stars and galaxies are incredibly beautiful and an endless source of inspiration. I found this picture, entitled Diamonds in space, among the NASA images and thought I’d use it as this week’s poetry prompt.
Use whatever form you find most appropriate, haiku, micropoetry, a complex rhyming form, prose poem, shape poem or anything else you can think of.
I’ve used this image to illustrate a microfiction piece for the Secret Keeper’s challenge which I’ll post later.
Get creating and post your links here. Take your time—you have a whole week.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
Thank you Jane for this inspiring prompt. I chose a ascending/descending nonet for my verse. 😊
https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/ecstacy/
Thanks Kat. I like your take on this dramatic subject 🙂
Thank you for another challenging challenge, and, once again, a fine example.
Mine reply is titled Worlds in Collision:
Worlds in collision
a vision unwelcome
yet sorely needed
Compromise ceded
impeded by circumstance
chance no longer a factor
Stagnation, starvation
for any emotion
apart from frustration
Needs no longer shared
pared until disparate
separate in identity
A perfect storm in
the form of silence
as two become none
When all is undone in
the final fission of
worlds in collision
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/worlds-in-collision/
Great poem. Thanks, Ken 🙂
love those NASA photos. (K)
They are glorious insanity 🙂
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and so inspiring!
I had a little fun with this one. Don’t know why my muse went this way but here it is!
Your muse went on a journey into space, that’s all 🙂
Haha! Well it was fun!
I went with a cinquain this week entitled “Twinkle…” http://bit.ly/1OCKGj2
I should have expected a twinkle, but this one was a surprise 🙂 A pleasant one.
Hehe.
Hi Jane. I enjoyed this prompt. I considered digging into my imagination, but the literal, curious side of me wanted to know more about the image. So I looked up the science story and ended up with 3 small poems, one of which is another S poem. I’ll unleash them tomorrow morning while I am sleeping, and if all goes well, the link should land here. 🙂 Thanks, this was fun.
Glad the picture inspired you, Janice. For me, it was the title as much as the image.
Yes, the title definitely shaped it. Diamonds in the sky…shows up in songs fairly often… it’s imagination entering reality.
I know diamonds are just a form of carbon, but that doesn’t stop them capturing the imagination 🙂