Beautiful rendition, love how you connected both sand and water so smoothly. It felt like one vivid composition. Challenging prompt, who knows what will come out of it (fiction, perhaps?!)
Olly and Em, I can’t explain it very well, but even though these two poems have completely opposite themes, I felt something like ‘a heart that wants to feel safe, but can’t fully feel safe’ from both of them.
What I enjoyed most here is that the “opposite” never feels purely conceptual.
Especially in “water,” it feels like the speaker is trying to enter an element that should bring peace, yet somehow remains unreachable. That tension gives the poem real emotional gravity.
And the prompt itself is genuinely interesting because it forces writers to notice the symbols they unconsciously return to, then step outside them long enough to see themselves differently.
Thank you so much! I appreciate your thoughtful comment a lot 🖤 yes, I know personally I learned a lot about myself through the exercise, I am hoping others find it similarly challenging in the right ways.
Oh, for sure!!! I think mine kinda ended up that way, anyway. I tried to write about water but found myself leaning on the contrast of the water and sand a bit.
Thank you both, lovely words 💕look forward to giving this a go (happy poem incoming, maybe?!)
Yay!!!! Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Thank you, Suzie 🥹🖤
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love this. together a threshold, undertow and grain, out and in, intertwined. you two are marvelous.
Thank you so much!!! ☺️🫶
Wow, I love both of these! And that is such a great idea.
Thank you, Jacqueline!! 🥹🖤
Beautiful rendition, love how you connected both sand and water so smoothly. It felt like one vivid composition. Challenging prompt, who knows what will come out of it (fiction, perhaps?!)
Thank you so much. This was a really fun collab 🥹 ooh!!! Can’t wait to read, if you do feel inspired to post something! 🖤
I am looking forward to see what you come up with Nimila!
Great challenge. Time to write about stillness rather than movement !
Can’t wait to see it if you post!!
Thanks so much for reading 🫶
Olly and Em, I can’t explain it very well, but even though these two poems have completely opposite themes, I felt something like ‘a heart that wants to feel safe, but can’t fully feel safe’ from both of them.
It is how I felt as well, you had a great read on us hah
Thank you for reading, Keiichiro. I think that’s definitely how I felt when writing the water poem 🖤
Lovely! Both pieces are so good! I may try this one, too ;)
Yay!!! Excited to read it, if you post it! :)
& thank you 🫶
Wonderfully done. I loved it.
Thanks so much! ☺️🫶
Love this and Em you still had to start with sand (the Sahara) !
Thank you! 🫶 and yes it was so hard to write about water I ended up writing about both 😅
What I enjoyed most here is that the “opposite” never feels purely conceptual.
Especially in “water,” it feels like the speaker is trying to enter an element that should bring peace, yet somehow remains unreachable. That tension gives the poem real emotional gravity.
And the prompt itself is genuinely interesting because it forces writers to notice the symbols they unconsciously return to, then step outside them long enough to see themselves differently.
Thank you so much! I appreciate your thoughtful comment a lot 🖤 yes, I know personally I learned a lot about myself through the exercise, I am hoping others find it similarly challenging in the right ways.
Nicely done. So it's two polar opposites. Can they be in the same piece?
Oh, for sure!!! I think mine kinda ended up that way, anyway. I tried to write about water but found myself leaning on the contrast of the water and sand a bit.
And thank you 🫶🖤