9:00 AM Friday morning, May 16th 2008, on the U.S. West Coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt! This week’s, and the thirty-fifth Writer’s Island prompt is: “Impulse”.
That word triggers some powerful and spontaneous images for me. Does “Impulse” suddenly ignite your creative urge — your creative fire? Share with us what you’re compelled to compose.
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This week we turn to the mythical new movie, Prince Caspian, as the source
of two Matinee Muse prompts — our thirteenth & fourteenth.
The first: “Betrayal”.
What conspiratorial, dark, and dangerous tale does this conjure forth
from the shadowy depths of your imagination?
Or perhaps it takes you to a sad and painful place.
The second: “Liberation”.
What soaring, heroic tale of daring does this stir in your soul?
Maybe it sparks something personal and intimate.

The Matinee Muse prompts are now a regular weekly offering, so please enjoy!
Remember — this, and every week, click the poster to learn about the movie.
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Feel free to use any one, or all, of this week’s prompts — or use your own, 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, drive you to write your very best — write from your heart! We can’t wait to see what you have for us…


75 Comments
May 16, 2008 at 12:20 am
#16
May 16, 2008 at 12:46 am
My take on combining all the prompts together(had a lot of fun with them
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/its-summer-again/
And I also had an old one for betrayal:
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/accident/
May 16, 2008 at 1:08 am
Cambodia had lots to offer. Here’s the slide show of the photos and some historical events. It’s liberation of sort.
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/05/ruins.html
May 16, 2008 at 1:08 am
A masseuse and how she made me feel special in Thailand. Impulse on massage.
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/05/masseuse.html
May 16, 2008 at 2:04 am
Alas, the betrayal of something that tastes so good….The Sweet Taste of Addiction
May 16, 2008 at 2:07 am
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/05/writers-island-impulse-liberation-and.html
May 16, 2008 at 2:50 am
Mine’s up. hope you enjoy.
How To Be Impulsive
May 16, 2008 at 3:00 am
Impulse
May 16, 2008 at 5:41 am
Here is my response to impulse. My new digital camera just had to be involved. I’m still experimenting!
Blue Light of Impulse
Gemma
May 16, 2008 at 6:31 am
credo
May 16, 2008 at 7:10 am
http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/05/impulse-betrayal-liberationwriters.html
I had so much fun with these prompts!
May 16, 2008 at 7:24 am
A long post for the “Carnival of elite bastards”
May 16, 2008 at 7:37 am
Thanks for the inspiration:)
Impulse by Taexalia
May 16, 2008 at 8:08 am
I have attempted all three (impulse/betrayal/liberation) together in my poem “Liberation”.
Enjoy your weekend
May 16, 2008 at 8:50 am
I’ll post this one under the banner of liberation, though it may be a little stretch, and actually be liberation’s opposite. I posted it yesterday after a prompt from Selma to post something for Human Rights Day on May 15.
LOCAL RENDITION
(Rated PG for graphic descriptions.)
May 16, 2008 at 9:16 am
Impulse, is it?
celebrations of sorts
May 16, 2008 at 9:18 am
Two for consideration – everyone have a great weekend!
http://texasblu5.blogspot.com/2008/05/writers-island-impulsebetraylliberation.html
May 16, 2008 at 10:35 am
my contribution—
http://thiswholenewworld.blogspot.com/2008/05/betrayed.html
May 16, 2008 at 11:14 am
This is off-prompt. But, in honor of Prince Caspian and C. S. Lewis fans:
Dear Digory
May 16, 2008 at 11:30 am
I used the prompt “impulse” to document a close scare with a forest fire.
http://mylifeasawarrior.blogspot.com/2008/05/writers-island-impulse.html
Thanks!
May 16, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Awe!
May 16, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Thanks for the inspiration. Here’s my Threefer Haiku.
May 16, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I am not sure why my previous comment takes one to my blog that has my pictures !
But the link to my poem “Liberation” that uses all three prompts of impulse/betrayal/liberation is here :
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/05/liberation.html
May 16, 2008 at 4:24 pm
He left on am “Imphulse” and left us to wonder.
b
http://torristravels.blogspot.com/2008/05/day-5-let-us-know.html
May 16, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Just do it is up
May 16, 2008 at 7:30 pm
An example of an impulse many folow
http://says-sir-ten.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-beautiful.html
May 16, 2008 at 10:35 pm
thanks for the prompt…http://visheshunni.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/impulse/
May 17, 2008 at 12:13 am
Hello Islanders!
Impulse and Betrayal in my Love Stories (Well, Almost)
These are parts I and II of my “Almost” love stoties. More to come.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
May 17, 2008 at 1:06 am
I combined Sunday Scribblings and Writer’s Island. Don’t ask me why those two prompts resulted in this.
Impulse to soar
May 17, 2008 at 2:22 am
here is yet another one from me—
this time have combined two prompts in one…
http://lifeofpri.blogspot.com/2008/05/and-this-is-my-sweet-story.html
May 17, 2008 at 9:23 am
Impulse? –> Spontaneity
May 17, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Deathly Impulse
Explicit and poignant poem.
May 17, 2008 at 12:31 pm
My innervision in verse.
Impulse
May 17, 2008 at 12:41 pm
A Poetic Impulse
May 17, 2008 at 12:48 pm
This is a stinging bouquet of liberating poets.
Poems of liberation
May 17, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Enjoy…
Night Vision
May 17, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Liberation
May 17, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Surrealistic impulses:
Ghost
May 17, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Contentment
May 17, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Here’s mine.
http://vagant.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/summerwinds-on-lake-victoria/
May 17, 2008 at 1:48 pm
This is a tender poem of love.
Closer To Heaven
May 17, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Days of our Years
May 17, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Acted on impluse
today!
May 17, 2008 at 8:35 pm
http://monthofapril2008.blogspot.com/2008/05/best-friend.html
May 17, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Happy Vesak Day!
Here’s my contribution.
Titled: “Runaway Car”
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/wi-impulse/
May 17, 2008 at 10:05 pm
For impulse: Fragmented Pieces
May 18, 2008 at 1:43 am
You’ll find my take on Liberation here:
How To Liberate Play
Enjoy.
May 18, 2008 at 3:15 am
Have combined prompts from two areas this week.
http://whitesnake45.blogspot.com/2008/05/twist-in-tale-writers-island-and-sunday.html
May 18, 2008 at 3:55 am
Here’s my effort
http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/an-impulsive-dragon/
May 18, 2008 at 9:44 am
This is liberation.
May 18, 2008 at 9:53 am
In its way this is the essence of liberation.
Communion
May 18, 2008 at 10:14 am
Betrayed by limbs.
May 18, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Liberation!
May 18, 2008 at 2:08 pm
As for Impulse…
Go here and pick a link at the bottom of the page. Everything Trevor does is impulsive. Be impulsive, yourself! Pick more than one!
May 18, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Okay… third time’s a charm… And no fancy code.
http://www.westofmars.com/Trevor.html
May 18, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Betrayers
May 18, 2008 at 6:50 pm
sorry, i’ve been kind of mia on my poetry site, lots of work to do and we are selling our house. but these words were great.
tenderness
May 18, 2008 at 9:05 pm
I’d like to take my fellow islanders on a fun ride
http://luluspetals.blogspot.com/2008/05/thrill-rider.html
May 18, 2008 at 9:06 pm
http://luluspetals.blogspot.com/2008/05/thrill-rider.html
i’d like to take my fellow islanders on a fun ride!
May 18, 2008 at 9:07 pm
my comments are taking I guess?
May 19, 2008 at 8:53 am
Hi Rob – I opted for the Matinee Muse prompt of Betrayal (I love these movie-inspired prompts!)
Thanks for the ongoing inspiration!
JanePoet on Betrayal
May 19, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Not exactly on topic but I did manage to use the word impulse…
May 20, 2008 at 3:25 am
a poem by Stephanie Rimmington on being liberated and rooted
http://ascenderrisesabove.com/wordpress/?p=3497
May 20, 2008 at 4:05 am
Ah just and impulse!
http://happytiler.blogspot.com/2008/05/writers-island-impulse.html
May 20, 2008 at 10:06 am
im exhausted. prompts from three different sources. hope you like it.
http://friiing.blogspot.com/2008/05/pandoras-box.html
ill come back in the morning and read all the other posts.
May 20, 2008 at 3:27 pm
This was a quick, impulsive one… :~)
http://fledglingpoet.blogspot.com/2008/05/writers-island-impulse.html
May 21, 2008 at 7:10 am
A take on impulse,
http://trailbrooklane.blogspot.com/2008/05/impulse.ht
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May 21, 2008 at 8:32 am
Better late than never.
I wrote about impulse.
http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/playing-with-thought/
May 21, 2008 at 7:40 pm
it’s been a while since I write anything for writers island or much of anything
here’s something
http://www.justwritingwords.com/2008/05/faces.html
May 22, 2008 at 2:57 am
Hello Again!
Here’s the sequel of my article I posted earlier. This time for the 2nd matinee muse: “Liberation”, the word that resonate to my Love Stories (Well, Almost)-2
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
May 22, 2008 at 6:10 am
here’s mine second one
http://www.justwritingwords.com/2008/05/waltz-of-night.html
May 22, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Fires
May 22, 2008 at 9:50 pm
IMPULSE BUYING POEM
http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/mall-hell.html
PoetMouse: Mall Hell
SUICIDAL IMPULSES POEM
http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/beautiful-life.html
PoetMouse: Fate
May 23, 2008 at 1:01 am
Impulse! http://dmascellani.livejournal.com/72163.html
May 26, 2008 at 2:57 am
Freedom with a price: http://sleepingdaisies.blogspot.com/2008/05/freedom-with-price.html