Hello Islanders!
It’s Tuesday, 12:01 AM on the U.S. east coast. Here is the post to which you can submit your links in the comments section to your piece posted on your blog. Remember, only post the link to your work here — as a ‘comment’, and please make certain your link is accurate.
If you’re new, welcome ashore! The details of ‘How To Come Ashore’ are posted in the sidebar. If you’ve returned, a warm welcome back! Writers Island belongs to us all. Please feel free to let us all know what you want and need on the island to make it an enjoyable and nurturing experience. We all love to hear your suggestions — and each are considered.
It’s a cool evening, so we built a beach fire. Seems a perfect atmosphere to share your poem, prose, short story, essay, or commentary about “The Stranger” — whether it’s a tale of wonder, mystery, suspense, love, enlightenment… whatever you’ve created, even it its not about a stranger.
So, everyone find yourself a comfortable place in the firelight. There is food and drink for everyone — the kind that nourishes your spirit. Then later, stroll the beach and share your thoughts with your fellow islanders.
The new season is upon the island, and it looks beautiful! The breezes are gentle, and the fire is warming… so please, relax, express yourself, and let the breezes carry your words.
SHARE — fellow islanders! 😉
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writer's island - since 2007 
Here’s mine:
http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2006/03/sometime-monsters.html
Back again with another poem. This one with a political bent. Thanks!
http://www.herburban.com/?p=2364
http://pilgrimsponderings.blogspot.com/
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2007/10/taking-over-writers-island.html
Two this time.
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger-writers-island_6932.html
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger-writers-island_22.html
For the first time I forgot about posting link here 🙂
just for about 15 min 😀
Here it is for this week
http://virtualrambling.blogspot.com/2007/10/strangers.html
Here’s mine.
I dug into the archives for this one. This is from the way-back machine, #64 out of the 250 i have right now. but i felt it was very fitting to this particular prompt. its in sonnet form, syllable restrictions and everything. Hope you enjoy it.
A Blind Fleeting Passion
Here’s mine.
I’ll be back much later to read.
http://abroadsthoughtsfromhome.blogspot.com/2007/10/writers-island.html
Not everyone’s notion of The Stranger, I know, but there’s room on the Island for all of us!
http://patteran.typepad.com/patteran_pages/
well it is 11:57 pm pacific… and here is mine….. gotta love this island time….
http://why-paisley.com/2007/10/22/flashback/
Here is my link
http://dutchcorner.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger.html
Here’s mine too …
http://over-it.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger-originally-it-was-bombastic.html
Here’s mine. A poem from me this time, inspired by a song.
http://aroundtheisland.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger-in-mirror.html
I was able to participate this week
http://shewritespoetry.blogspot.com/2007/10/teetering-precariously-this-heart-in-me.html
Here goes!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2007/10/writers-island-stranger.html
http://mayfairplace.blogspot.com/2007/10/friends-and-strangers.html
The sunrises on the Island are spectacular!! Something a bit different,
http://poeticjustice-dan.blogspot.com/
The romance continues;
meet Elodie here:
http://pciyrtpy.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger-you-sailed-smiling-out-to-sea.html
rel
a synical humourous poem
http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2007/10/strangerwriters-island.html
first essay 🙂
http://encuentrosextraordinarios.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger.html
You never know when you’ll meet a stranger
here you go
i am loving these prompts
so excited forgot link …
http://uplatette.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/writers-island-the-stranger/
The Stranger
Here ya go! I’ll be seeing you on the beach later….
xo
Gillian
An older one of mine, but still a favorite.
http://westofmars.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html#115236786500253669
This is such a perfect topic to write stories on, if only I had the time. No such luck! So this will have to do from my end for this week. Hope to stop by and read everyone’s –
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2007/10/on-road.html
Hi eveyrone — here’s an excerpt from a larger short story.
http://9to5poet.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger-danger.html
I’ll reading everyone’s posts after work — I can’t wait to see how we interpreted this one.
My take on this weeks prompt:
http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/10/23/stranger.html
Here is my find of the week. A very powerful poem by an upcoming writer; Kevin A. González. I really connected to this one and had to stop reading a few times and come back to it. Sometimes strangers are the people you live with.
You never know who’ll be in your bedroom…
http://kaibluecreations.blogspot.com/2007/10/527-stranger.html
It’s a rainy day in Georgia, a good time to read!
http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/as-strange-as/
Happy Tuesday.
Christine
You never know who’ll be in your bedroom…
http://kaibluecreations.blogspot.com/2007/10/527-stranger.html 🙂
Here’s mine:
http://beccasbyline.blogspot.com/2007/10/writers-island-stranger.html
Here’s my submission . . .
A Stranger
I was up until 11:37, but fell asleep before the 12:01 witching hour! Here’s mine
With friends like these
just a note…thegirlwho is not a stranger, just an old blog not yet deleted. It’s me jillypoet
The stranger and film noir:
http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2007/10/stranger.html
Oh. thegirlwho, my alter blog is in wordpress and has never posted here before so it’s being moderated first. Ah-ha. So you all will think I’m nuts. Well, a poet is allowed…
I am here. Click here to see Halley’s Comet.
Aloha!
My heart goes out to friends and strangers affected by the fires in Southern California.
My post is a prose poem this week: stoney moss: …deb on Strangers, for Writers Island
Jillypoet –
We’re all a bit zany here on the island. It’s the tropical ocean air… 😉
I also wanted to point you to the NewsHour podcast if you didn’t see their report on poietry publishing last night. I have links to the NewsHour and some (most) of the folks on the show here:
stoney moss: Northwest Poetry on the NewsHour Tonight: Fit to Print: The Business of Poetry and Small Presses
Hello All! I found the prompt this week very difficult, but trust the Boston T to bring out something. Here’s “Stranger on a Train.”
http://honeybeewaiting.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger-on-train.html
This is one I wrote back in July, but the subject matter seemed to fit so well. Sometimes we can become strangers to ourselves.
http://fledglingpoet.blogspot.com/2007/07/flawed.html
Here’s mine:
http://islandeditions.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/another-day-in-paradise/
Here’s my entry
http://walktotheleft.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger.html
Short sweet and to the point. Here it is;
http://beadfluff.blogspot.com/2007/10/writers-island-tuesday-stranger-cross.html.
eNJOY!
HEllo fellow writers my observation on STranger is up and ready for viewing
http://rebicmel.blogspot.com/2007/10/writers-island-stranger-observation.html
Yes, I know it doesn’t follow the prompt, but here’s the poem I wrote anyway:
http://donteatalone.blogspot.com/2007/10/broken.html
Peace,
Milton
Here’s my link. Thanx for letting me post it. http://littleartroom.blogspot.com
Thanks again for the site! Here’s my Stranger post…
http://firsttumblewords.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger.html
A poem about strange Phil Thumbing a Ride .
http://beadfluff.blogspot.com/2007/10/writers-island-tuesday-stranger-cross.html and we’ll see if that works, If not go to http://beadfluff.blogspot.com for Tuesday October 23, 2007 and that should get you there.
http://quietaboutalotofthings.blogspot.com/2007/10/perfect-strangers.html
I’ll read tonight..promise…Quite a good growth pattern you’ve got goin! Congrats!
Here’s an older one I thought fit this prompt:
The Stranger
Hi fellow Islanders..late yet again but so happy to be here.
my poem
hope you like it…
love-bd
Sorry that is my gmail name.
love-Beloved Dreamer
It seems I was adrift for a while, but I’ve found my way back to the island at last.
Here’s a short bit about a stranger I once came upon:
http://sundryscribbling.blogspot.com/2007/10/writers-island-stranger.html
Buck and Carol’s Trailer Court…Strangers Welcome! I would hate to tell you how much of this is true. The names have been changed to protect the dearly departed.
Barbara
wow…great stuff this week…thanks for being so welcoming to a newcomer..appreciate all your comments and enjoy visiting the other writers….this stranger…he is so…but yet we are so intimate…
http://pieceofpie.wordpress.com/writersisland/
A little late on the joining here today, but here’s mine:
http://creativekarina.blogspot.com
My original idea took a turn after downloading a new photo.
Blurred
Jilly and WI: “so you all will think I’m nuts” and “It’s the tropical ocean air…”–Yeah, all this salt has pickled (but preserved) our brains.
my first visit here at the island, and i’m looking forward to more great challenges in the future! here is my take on THE STRANGER.
I am having so much fun! I love the prompts! It is great to read what everyone else writes! The Stranger is becoming a longer story for me! ha HA !
The Stranger
Well, I started out trying to follow the prompt, but something else shouldered it out of the way: As the Drylands Burn, about the fires here in California.
My area is safe (though we’re all breathing the smoke), but my heart hurts for those who have lost their homes.
well, I’m not happy about it myself (lesson learned: lack of time> don’t write!), but I posted it anyway… :
http://josie-huntinghighandlow.blogspot.com/2007/10/strangers.html
Jo
This is my first response to this great blog.
Hope you like it! I don’t know where it came from , it was just my mind’s response to the words “the stranger”. 🙂
not really a stranger poem, but the prompt is what got me to write it…
http://briefpoems.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-woman-cries-invisibly-like-food.html
Took a sick leave day yesterday…no writing…so I’m a day late…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2007/10/the-stranger.html
I’m new to all this, so please forgive the clumsiness!
http://gimmeadream.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger.html
Islanders –
Let’s all welcome the following newcomers* who posted for the first time on Writers Island. Stop by and say hello to these, our newest islanders. 🙂
Jade Ice @ Lost Luna
Greggo @ Greggo Anonymous
Lizalee @ Liza Lee Miller
Sara @ She Write Poetry
Brian @ Brief Poems
Wynn @ Gimme A Dream
*I determine who has not posted before by whose comments I had to moderate for the first (and only) time to give them access to the island. If you are not new, or if I missed someone who was new — I apologize for my mistake.
Here is my late entry.
http://sharala.blogspot.com/2007/10/kindness-of-strangers.html
another attempt at poetry… sorry I’m a bit late.
http://luluspetals.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger.html
This is a true story (with photos too!) Here it is.
http://justamotheroftwo.blogspot.com/
http://scenesfromaslowmovingtrain.blogspot.com/2007/10/writers-island-stranger.html
I think I’ve finally managed to figure out the permalink thingy –
http://properjoes.blogspot.com/2007/10/stranger.html
http://grevathi.blogsome.com/2007/10/25/stranger/
Islanders –
Wanted to welcome one more first-time visitor to our shores. Let’s all welcome Revathi @ Here It Is.
A very good turnout this week. Hope everyone enjoyed themselves! Look forward to seeing you all next week… 😉
Thanks for the fun prompt. Here’s mine:
http://tinkerart.typepad.com/tinker_art/2007/10/haunted.html#more
Oops! Wrong post – sorry!
I know it is too late to be read by anyone, but I had started it just after arriving in Florida, and found time to finish it today. I posted on my other site.
Exploration
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