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Prompt & Link: “Triumph”

April 17, 2008

9:00 AM Friday morning, April 18th 2008, on the U.S. West Coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt! This week’s, and the thirty-first Writer’s Island prompt is: “Triumph”.

That word conjures some powerful impressions for me, but I never want to influence your take on this week’s prompt. How does “Triumph” empower your imagination? Please share with us where this prompt carries you!

••> This week we turn to the new movie release, The Life Before Her Eyes, as the source of our ninth Matinee Muse prompt — “Survivor”. See what inspiration is sparked by this one — dark or light.


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 muse, this week and every week, come to your rescue, so you write your best — write from your heart! We can’t wait to see what you have for us…

76 comments

  1. The bitter anguish of surviving the death of love. To Remain

    P.S. — I have completely remodeled my original “Image & Verse” site. That is where I’ve posted this piece.


  2. http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/for-my-mother/


  3. I had an old one for Survivor (warning, it is a bit of a longish one)

    http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/storm/


  4. Combining the two prompts Triumph and Survivor as an ode to a wonderful woman in my life is this one:

    http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/for-my-mother/


  5. My take! Thats a nice prompt there Rob, it made me think and delve into everyday lives of people. Each day is a triumph for most!

    http://paperpencilstat.blogspot.com/2008/04/everyday-hero.html


  6. Plenty for you here. Enjoy:

    Triumphant Survival


  7. A story i had scribbled sometime back…

    http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/04/daughter-no-more.html


  8. well a triumph and survival of sort… one year in Thailand :-)

    celebration during the SOngkran (New Year)

    http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/04/songkran.html


  9. Here is a kind of different idea of survival.

    The Living Mirror

    Gemma


  10. I have one I had written earlier ..but I think it has a “TRIUMPHANT” spirit :)

    http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/02/shadows-without-doubt.html


  11. Good morning Rob and Islanders. I posted a piece which does not follow either prompt, but which my Muse wanted posted. I do like both prompts though, maybe I’ll write something about Survivor later.

    http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/ignorance/


  12. I visited my childhood:

    http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/04/sleeping-beauty.html


  13. Titled: “The Little Black Bird”
    http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/writers-island-triumph/


  14. http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/04/triumph-survivorwriters-island.html
    a tribute to my mom and just moms in general :D


  15. My comment


  16. The poem’s old, the image is new. It’s kind of a non-survivor.

    Drowned Sailor


  17. This is an older poem. I used the survivor prompt.

    the keyhole

    love-bd


  18. Hi Islanders … I went with the survivor prompt … see ya

    http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/04/18/desert-of-my-heart.html


  19. Dear Hearts and Gentle Islanders,

    i was reading a story in the New Yorker this morning about a fellow who had been trapped in an elevator. He now avoids them, not because he’s afraid of dying but because he’s “afraid of being left alone with my own mind.” That, and the “survival” prompt gave me: e-SURVIVOR


  20. Here’s one for “triumph”:

    Caesar’s Slave


  21. Blurred Slumbers


  22. For the innocents just barely surviving: #14


  23. Here is a poem called An Ordinary Day.

    http://mylifeasawarrior.blogspot.com/2008/04/writers-island-triumph.html

    Have a great weekend!


  24. http://texasblu3.blogspot.com/2008/04/triumph-survivor-writers-island.html

    I did both this week - a rarity for me, but they came so easily! :D

    Thank you!


  25. http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/04/survivor-writers-island.html


  26. http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/04/triumph-of-sort-writers-island.html


  27. Triumph is a very difficult word to work with, so I’ve taken the liberty of adding an ‘ant’ at the end! I hope my piece is sufficiently triumphant!

    http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/04/poem-19-triumph.html


  28. My Triumph post is up.

    http://jadey73.blogspot.com/2008/04/triumph-writers-island-prompt.html


  29. Here is my contribution to the Matinee Muse, Survivor.

    Survivor


  30. Time On Our Side


  31. A two-fer: “Joy in the Journey”


  32. Sputzies


  33. Good Day Islanders!

    Here’s a Haiku collection from a survivor’s heart that triumph reaping his Sweet Rewards

    “Success is never ending, failure is never final”
    (I forgot the author of the book)

    I wish you well.

    ~ Jeques


  34. Triumph poem of sorts - “Guardian”

    Gaurdian


  35. I didn’t feel the inspiration to participate in this particular prompt but I am enjoying reading all of your stories and poems.

    Today, we had an unexpected snow/rain fall so I went with that for my muse.

    A fine and diverse take on “triumph”. Well done. G

    http://www.mypoeticpath.wordpress.com


  36. The Rodeo…triumph of another sort.

    http://torristravels.blogspot.com/2008/04/rodeowriters-island-prompt-triumph.html


  37. this might not be the most enjoyable read on the list,, but it is a form poem i worked very hard on none the less…

    triumphant hour


  38. Well, I’m a little earlier this time!
    Here’s a little haiku which was triumph in itself.
    Check it out at:

    http://forestriverjournal.blogspot.com/2008/04/horizon-found.html


  39. It’s a ‘triumph’ I wrote this almost on time this week.
    Great prompt.

    http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/this-triumphant-life/


  40. I’ve chosen ‘triumph.
    aphrodite


  41. The above doesn’t seem to work so I’ll try again as i must have left something out.

    Aphrodite


  42. Fragments From Being


  43. Mine is a draft -
    http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/04/bravery.html


  44. Here’s my take on both triumph and survivor.. I call it
    A cold shower

    http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/a-cold-shower/


  45. Hello,

    Here is my contribution…

    http://1poet4man.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/nonetheless-a-meeting-of-melds/

    Be Well
    Poetman


  46. This is m first time on writers island! I recognize some fellow writers from 3WW and Sunday Scribblings - hey there! I wanted to post a piece I wrote earlier this week that I really care about, it’s entitled

    Petrified Wood –
    http://amarettogirl.squarespace.com/the-written-word/

    And in an eerie way I think this piece works for the Survivor prompt! I’m excited about joining writers island because the flexibility, prompts and motivators are tantalizing!


  47. My favorite kind of triumph is neither military nor literary.


  48. Happy Sunday everyone. I posted a picture and a poem written by two of my others, Little Brian and Sable. They wanted to show what it’s like being a Survivor.

    http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/soul/


  49. Hello everyone!

    Here is my contribution for the week :-

    http://veena-mypicsandstuff.blogspot.com/2008/04/well.html

    have a good weekend everyone!


  50. Kill Desire


  51. Vintage memories. Triumph


  52. A little archaic triumph…

    http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-415-wd-catching-up.html


  53. Mother Pt.1


  54. Two differing points of view regarding the survival of humankind.

    Contrasting Perspective


  55. Moving toward the triumph of forgiveness.

    Sister


  56. This is triumph: #4


  57. Beaming


  58. Surviving


  59. [...] Luc-Bat (six-eight), Poefusion, Writer’s Island, Triumph. [...]


  60. Mine is a Luc-Bat poem, a form I just learned about on Poefusion. Here’s the link:

    How I triumphed over Harlequin Death


  61. a personal reflection on triumph and the will to survive: The Triumph of the Human Spirit


  62. What a flower knows


  63. Triumph


  64. http://autumnmoon.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/a-study-in-blue/


  65. Danny Federici In Memory


  66. .. who’s a survivor, what is Triumph?..

    http://horizonnext.blogspot.com/2008/04/survivortriumph_22.html


  67. Only recently (well, somewhat) have I written about being a survior of breast cancer. One piece is autobiographical, the other a work of fiction. I will leave both links as each touches on “triumph” and “survival”:

    Eye of the Beholder


  68. Only recently (well, somewhat) have I written about being a survior of breast cancer. One piece is autobiographical, the other a work of fiction. I will leave both links as each touches on “triumph” and “survival”:

    The Future is Now


  69. I combined both prompts in a short poem, Survivor, Of


  70. Not exactly fitted to the prompt this time, but please drop by ANYWAY! Happy Earth Day!

    Earth Day


  71. Survival


  72. It sort of fits under the survival umbrella — and it celebrates Earth Day. Remarkable how a day, once considered a bit ethereal, suddenly has great meaning!

    Earth Day ‘08


  73. My take on the prompt on triump and survival

    http://trailbrooklane.blogspot.com/2008/04/triumph.html


  74. I would like to share with you the second of two poems that speak of a 39 year old young mother who suffered from brain tumor . (a real life incident)

    http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/04/survivor.html


  75. Barely before the next week’s prompt gets here :)

    http://monthofapril2008.blogspot.com/2008/04/stamp-of-champ.html


  76. This is an old one… But I really enjoyed reading it . its about ‘triumph’ titled ‘When man becomes God….

    http://medhini.blogspot.com/2007/06/when-man-becomes-god.html


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