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
April 18, 2008 at 12:18 am
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.
April 18, 2008 at 12:42 am
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/for-my-mother/
April 18, 2008 at 12:43 am
I had an old one for Survivor (warning, it is a bit of a longish one)
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/storm/
April 18, 2008 at 12:44 am
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/
April 18, 2008 at 1:34 am
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
April 18, 2008 at 2:18 am
Plenty for you here. Enjoy:
Triumphant Survival
April 18, 2008 at 2:37 am
A story i had scribbled sometime back…
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/04/daughter-no-more.html
April 18, 2008 at 3:24 am
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
April 18, 2008 at 3:35 am
Here is a kind of different idea of survival.
The Living Mirror
Gemma
April 18, 2008 at 3:46 am
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
April 18, 2008 at 5:03 am
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/
April 18, 2008 at 5:29 am
I visited my childhood:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/04/sleeping-beauty.html
April 18, 2008 at 7:23 am
Titled: “The Little Black Bird”
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/writers-island-triumph/
April 18, 2008 at 8:05 am
http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/04/triumph-survivorwriters-island.html
a tribute to my mom and just moms in general
April 18, 2008 at 8:45 am
My comment
April 18, 2008 at 9:55 am
The poem’s old, the image is new. It’s kind of a non-survivor.
Drowned Sailor
April 18, 2008 at 10:09 am
This is an older poem. I used the survivor prompt.
the keyhole
love-bd
April 18, 2008 at 11:51 am
Hi Islanders … I went with the survivor prompt … see ya
http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/04/18/desert-of-my-heart.html
April 18, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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
April 18, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Here’s one for “triumph”:
Caesar’s Slave
April 18, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Blurred Slumbers
April 18, 2008 at 1:24 pm
For the innocents just barely surviving: #14
April 18, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Here is a poem called An Ordinary Day.
http://mylifeasawarrior.blogspot.com/2008/04/writers-island-triumph.html
Have a great weekend!
April 18, 2008 at 2:51 pm
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!
Thank you!
April 18, 2008 at 3:08 pm
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/04/survivor-writers-island.html
April 18, 2008 at 3:18 pm
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/04/triumph-of-sort-writers-island.html
April 18, 2008 at 5:30 pm
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
April 18, 2008 at 7:50 pm
My Triumph post is up.
http://jadey73.blogspot.com/2008/04/triumph-writers-island-prompt.html
April 18, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Here is my contribution to the Matinee Muse, Survivor.
Survivor
April 19, 2008 at 2:09 am
Time On Our Side
April 19, 2008 at 8:53 am
A two-fer: “Joy in the Journey”
April 19, 2008 at 10:10 am
Sputzies
April 19, 2008 at 12:30 pm
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
April 19, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Triumph poem of sorts – “Guardian”
Gaurdian
April 19, 2008 at 3:31 pm
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
April 19, 2008 at 5:58 pm
The Rodeo…triumph of another sort.
http://torristravels.blogspot.com/2008/04/rodeowriters-island-prompt-triumph.html
April 19, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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
April 19, 2008 at 9:02 pm
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
April 19, 2008 at 11:23 pm
It’s a ‘triumph’ I wrote this almost on time this week.
Great prompt.
http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/this-triumphant-life/
April 20, 2008 at 2:37 am
I’ve chosen ‘triumph.
aphrodite
April 20, 2008 at 2:39 am
The above doesn’t seem to work so I’ll try again as i must have left something out.
Aphrodite
April 20, 2008 at 2:39 am
Fragments From Being
April 20, 2008 at 6:03 am
Mine is a draft –
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/04/bravery.html
April 20, 2008 at 6:40 am
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/
April 20, 2008 at 7:52 am
Hello,
Here is my contribution…
http://1poet4man.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/nonetheless-a-meeting-of-melds/
Be Well
Poetman
April 20, 2008 at 9:25 am
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!
April 20, 2008 at 9:25 am
My favorite kind of triumph is neither military nor literary.
April 20, 2008 at 9:54 am
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/
April 20, 2008 at 10:47 am
Hello everyone!
Here is my contribution for the week :-
http://veena-mypicsandstuff.blogspot.com/2008/04/well.html
have a good weekend everyone!
April 20, 2008 at 11:29 am
Kill Desire
April 20, 2008 at 11:47 am
Vintage memories. Triumph
April 20, 2008 at 7:58 pm
A little archaic triumph…
http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-415-wd-catching-up.html
April 21, 2008 at 1:19 am
Mother Pt.1
April 21, 2008 at 2:40 am
Two differing points of view regarding the survival of humankind.
Contrasting Perspective
April 21, 2008 at 9:00 am
Moving toward the triumph of forgiveness.
Sister
April 21, 2008 at 10:03 am
This is triumph: #4
April 21, 2008 at 10:27 am
Beaming
April 21, 2008 at 10:40 am
Surviving
April 21, 2008 at 10:53 am
[...] Luc-Bat (six-eight), Poefusion, Writer’s Island, Triumph. [...]
April 21, 2008 at 11:01 am
Mine is a Luc-Bat poem, a form I just learned about on Poefusion. Here’s the link:
How I triumphed over Harlequin Death
April 21, 2008 at 1:50 pm
a personal reflection on triumph and the will to survive: The Triumph of the Human Spirit
April 21, 2008 at 2:29 pm
What a flower knows
April 21, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Triumph
April 22, 2008 at 1:05 am
http://autumnmoon.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/a-study-in-blue/
April 22, 2008 at 1:40 am
Danny Federici In Memory
April 22, 2008 at 1:41 am
.. who’s a survivor, what is Triumph?..
http://horizonnext.blogspot.com/2008/04/survivortriumph_22.html
April 22, 2008 at 3:16 pm
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
April 22, 2008 at 3:44 pm
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
April 22, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I combined both prompts in a short poem, Survivor, Of
April 22, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Not exactly fitted to the prompt this time, but please drop by ANYWAY! Happy Earth Day!
Earth Day
April 22, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Survival
April 23, 2008 at 2:31 am
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
April 23, 2008 at 8:34 am
My take on the prompt on triump and survival
http://trailbrooklane.blogspot.com/2008/04/triumph.html
April 23, 2008 at 1:56 pm
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
April 24, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Barely before the next week’s prompt gets here:)
http://monthofapril2008.blogspot.com/2008/04/stamp-of-champ.html
April 24, 2008 at 9:12 pm
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