9:00 AM Friday morning, March 21st, 2008, on the U.S. west coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt! This week’s, and the twenty seventh Writer’s Island prompt is: “Déjà vu”.
As always, I don’t want to sway your take on this week’s prompt. What inner chord might “Déjà vu” strike? Please share with us what resonates for you!
••> This week we turn to the wonderful new movie release, Under The Same Moon, as the source of our fifth Matinee Muse prompt — “Persistence”. See if that stirs your creative juices. The movie will stir your heart.

The Matinee Muse prompts are now a regular weekly offering. So please enjoy! <••
Feel free to use either, or both, of this week’s prompts — or use neither if you so choose. Whatever moves your soul this week is what we all want to read.
So, create your poem, prose, short story, essay, commentary, or whatever — and post it on your blog. Feel free to include recordings of you reading your work — and any photo, artwork, or graphic representation you feel is relevant.
When you have finished your piece, please return here to this post and place your link to your work as a comment — and as you know, just the link, not the piece.
Please realize there is no need to rush, this post will be open to receive your links for the entire week, leading up to the next prompt.
May your persistence with your muse, this week and every week, bring you the inspiration you need to write your best — to write your heart! We can’t wait to see what you have for us…


71 Comments
March 21, 2008 at 4:03 am
Here’s Evasions on the déjà vu theme.
Thanks for the prompts!
March 21, 2008 at 4:29 am
I might more persistent later on. For now”
dancing comes full circle
March 21, 2008 at 5:01 am
Here is my response. I may write another. Love this topic!
Deja Vu Dreamcoat
March 21, 2008 at 5:16 am
Well, this is sort of in keeping with the prompt. I hope you enjoy my update on the Easter story.
March 21, 2008 at 5:17 am
sorry – forgot the link!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/03/easter-tale.html
March 21, 2008 at 7:16 am
My take on Déjà vu:
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/been-here-done-that/
March 21, 2008 at 8:15 am
thoughts on being alone… persistent on working abroad
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/05/alone.html
March 21, 2008 at 8:15 am
Titled “About Kim”
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/writers-island-deja-vu/
March 21, 2008 at 8:52 am
Just some random thoughts today.
Rose
xo
http://dewyknickers.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/random-thoughts-2/
March 21, 2008 at 9:20 am
This is the first time I’m doing this.
Poetry is all i can do!
here goes:
http://seraphicgirl.blogspot.com/2008/03/deja-vu.html
March 21, 2008 at 10:22 am
http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/03/persistence.html
I persisted…lol
March 21, 2008 at 10:46 am
i posted this a few days ago…nothing to do with this week’s prompts, unless you note the persistance of the baby wanting to come into the world and inquisitive spirit….
A Mother’s Love
I will come back later and post something re. prompts…..xoxox Rebecca
March 21, 2008 at 11:42 am
I’m no longer a practicing Catholic, but I’m certainly a “cultural Catholic,” and I wanted to post something that pertained to the Easter Season. I chose the theme of “Persistence.”
THE PERSISTENCE OF FAITH
March 21, 2008 at 11:45 am
Richard, I wanted to post a comment on your blog last night but couldn’t get it to go through. Are only Mac users allowed for comments? That doesn’t seem correct.
My compliments to you on a great blog and excellent writing.
Geraldine
http://www.mypoeticpath.wordpress.com
PS: I’m working on my first word prompt with Writer’s Island!
March 21, 2008 at 1:12 pm
This is my submission to this week’s word prompt invitation, The Dollhouse:
http://mypoeticpath.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/the-dollhouse/
Revisiting memories as a little girl; still so real and meaningful.
March 21, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Thanks for the prompt and the site. Here’s mine…
Deja Vu
March 21, 2008 at 1:35 pm
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/03/deja-vu-writers-island.html
March 21, 2008 at 1:46 pm
A new one for “deja vu”…
A Postcard from God
March 21, 2008 at 1:47 pm
…and an old one for “persistence”
Persistence of Memory
March 21, 2008 at 2:13 pm
A Blessed Day Everyone!
Be persistent and Be The Best That You Could Be
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
March 21, 2008 at 3:16 pm
A Déjà vu of diaster.
March 21, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I have my entry for this week’s prompt posted:
Déjà vu? or a Slice of Life
http://cricket51.wordpress.com
March 21, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Memories of neverwas… # 10
March 21, 2008 at 4:12 pm
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/03/persistence-writers-island.html
March 21, 2008 at 5:15 pm
First timer. I liked the prompt this week so decided to jump in.
http://manictastic.blogspot.com/2008/03/dj-vu.html
March 21, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Ever have the same conversation over and over?
March 22, 2008 at 6:12 am
Persistence of passion: # 11
March 22, 2008 at 6:27 am
Deja vu … reliving a prior experience ..at what point of one’s Life ??
Read my poem on http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/03/dj-vu.html
March 22, 2008 at 7:25 am
The persistence of a child from me this week.
Wishing a lovely holiday to all celebrating.
March 22, 2008 at 9:05 am
i enjoyed this one….
déjà vu
March 22, 2008 at 9:31 am
Persistence and the Designer is up. Happy Easter everyone and I hope you all have a great weekend.
March 22, 2008 at 11:07 am
Hi all writers,
Please support Earth Day.
Have a great day,
happy easter,
Milou
March 22, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Rob,
Poetry4kids has linked my poem Dancing comes full circle here. I had left a link of this on his blog to encourage his blog. He published it on his blog and has not credited to me in his blog.
I think, it should be deleted from here.
March 22, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Gautami -
I quickly investigated, and you are correct. I have disabled the link to your piece which ‘Poetry4Kids’ had posted on the Earth Day project site, without giving credit to you. I left the URL link to the actual poetry4kids site.
Thank you for notifying me.
Rob
WI Moderator
March 22, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Hello Islanders -
I want to quickly touch on a point of creative rights. Sharing poetry here on Writers Island DOES NOT mean copying someone else’s piece, and reposting it on your site — unless you have been given specific permission to do so by the author, and you do the reposting in a manner approved by the author.
Please respect the creative rights of the original authors on this Island, and any other site you may visit.
Thank you all very much!
Rob
WI Moderator
March 22, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Thanks Rob, for disabling that link. I found poetry4kids link on Read write poem and thought of encouraging that 9 years old kid.
I left the link in the comment section. Milou moderates the comments. My link never showed up there and next I see, my poem is published on that blog without giving me any credits. And then I see it HERE when I came here to check for new links!
jeques poem is too published on Milou’s blog with no credits. And it was me who told jeques about the project!
I feel so bad about it. Imagine an almost 10-years old getting better of someone four times her age!
Should I laugh or cry?
March 22, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Thanks, as always, for the inspiration. Here’s my
Déjà Views.
March 22, 2008 at 3:20 pm
A sideways slant on “Déjà vu”.
Villanelle For Joan
March 22, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Gautami and Rob,
I visited that site, and submitted a cotribution as Gautami encouraged me. Yeah, it’s just so sad. What’s worse, their are some errors made in my poem when it waw published on her site – I already left her a message to do some corrections and adjustments. Well, lessons learned.
Here’s my contribution for Déjà vu: Seeing My Reflections In Their Eyes
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
March 22, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Deja Vu –
A FAMILIAR WAY, at Nickers and Ink
Better late than never . . . just like my memory!
Blessings and HAPPY EASTER!
Linda
http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com
March 22, 2008 at 7:54 pm
See through the eye of God.
http://torristravels.blogspot.com/2008/03/seeing-through-eye-of-god-writers.html
March 23, 2008 at 12:42 am
Here’s an attempt
<a href=”http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/i-look-at-you/” I look at you
March 23, 2008 at 12:43 am
Looks like my html skills suck
so I just post the link here
http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/i-look-at-you/
March 23, 2008 at 1:59 am
Hope I’m not last one posting….
my poem
toujous-bd
March 23, 2008 at 5:44 am
This week’s prompt of “Déjà vu” inspired me to two poems.
Tho’ I have already posted the link to my first offering …a moment of reunion with his beloved in his dying moment.. I shall post the link here again
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/03/dj-vu.html
The second is a real life incident that I have experienced …..
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-baby.html
To Gautami, Richard, Paisley, Tumblewords ..thank you so much for looking up my first poem “Déjà vu”.. I am a little tied up right now so please allow me a little more time to come visit you !
March 23, 2008 at 9:34 am
Late again – sigh.
http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2008/03/deja-vu.html
Happy Easter!
March 23, 2008 at 10:50 am
Here’s my take on the Déjà Vu prompt:
http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/03/23/deja-vu.html
Happy Easter to all Islanders!
March 23, 2008 at 11:31 am
Hello, I do not know how others do these so quickly…I seem to labor over them…
http://1poet4man.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/the-echo-of-love/
March 23, 2008 at 4:39 pm
When you erase the original post and need to repeat a roundup of the ideas…well that is real “dejavue”
b
March 23, 2008 at 7:29 pm
lol Barbara – I relate to that one.
Persistence was my prompt of choice –
http://texasblu3.blogspot.com/2008/03/persistence-writers-island.html
March 23, 2008 at 7:34 pm
hope everyone had a nice Easter
http://luluspetals.blogspot.com/2008/03/dj-vu.html
March 23, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Greetings Islanders …
Here’s my Deja Vu contribution.
Peace, JP/deb
March 24, 2008 at 9:36 am
here is mine; a lovely poem by William Park of the UK on peristence titled “the bookstall”. the images in my tile are kells illustrations; some of the oldest illuminated illustrations in existence. that is persistence?
http://ascenderrisesabove.com/wordpress/?p=2997
March 24, 2008 at 10:19 am
already 53 comments? well better late than never
http://myaalochane.blogspot.com/2008/03/persistent-and-how.html
March 24, 2008 at 4:05 pm
i do not write poetry much, find it quite hard actually since i took a poetry course a few years ago and it took all the fun out of it because now i dissect it so much making sure it reads as it should, that the Muse has gone on permanent vacation…but this one was one i wrote many years ago, pre-Muse-castoff, inspired by a dream…please be gentle, as I am among so many prolific and talented poets
A Dream Divine
March 24, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Deja Vu
– perhaps this poem wold be deja vu…
http://starofnuit.blogspot.com/2008/02/footprints-in-snow-of-time-uncovered-by.html
March 24, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I guess this too needs a reading… along with the others
http://kanchanbhattacharyas.blogspot.com/2008/03/ectassy.html
March 24, 2008 at 9:16 pm
late again?!! But still my persistent thoughts here…
http://dreamsofwords.blogspot.com/2008/03/whos-at-my-window.html
March 25, 2008 at 6:34 am
I would swear that I’ve done this before…
March 25, 2008 at 10:23 am
I took a bit of a twist to these two prompts, and looked at one scene from two perspectives:
http://creativekarina.blogspot.com/2008/03/writers-island-25-deja-vu.html
I’m pretty happy with what I came up with…what do you think?
March 25, 2008 at 11:04 am
My take on persistence (a little bit cheesy, but couldn’t improve it further)
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/persevere-for-humanity/
March 25, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Here is my take:
http://trailbrooklane.blogspot.com/2008/03/dj-vu.html
March 25, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Below
March 25, 2008 at 11:03 pm
http://forgetfulone.blogspot.com/2008/03/deja-vu-and-persistence-writers-island.html
I attempted both deja vu and persistence. Hope you can visit me!
March 26, 2008 at 12:57 am
WOW! This was obviously a popular prompt. Looking forward to reading everyone’s work. I used deja vu in my story.
http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/late-again/
March 26, 2008 at 2:28 am
Here is my contribution…
Deja Vu
March 26, 2008 at 2:11 pm
http://sleepingdaisies.blogspot.com/2008/03/dj-vu.html
March 27, 2008 at 12:11 pm
http://thepoetryofdreams.blogspot.com/2008/03/writers-island-deja-vu.html
March 27, 2008 at 8:34 pm
It’s okay to be afraid
March 29, 2008 at 11:57 pm
I did both…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/03/deja-vu.html
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/03/persistance.html
April 1, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Here’s mine for torrid
http://happytiler.blogspot.com/2008/04/writers-island-torrid.html