vox poetica
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Because we all need a creative push from time to time and amazing things happen when great pictures inspire great words! Art will be posted here for your inspiration, so look, write the poem you're spurred to write, and submit it here: prompts@voxpoetica.com (please include your name and the city where you write). Selected submissions will be posted here and the art will change from time to time (timing will depend on how much prompt writing you talented people can tolerate) so check in often to see what's been written and what the next picture looks like. Here's the first poem inspired by this photograph. Write your own and add another dimension.
Photo: Candy Shop in Belgium, by Bridget Fahey O'Brien, 2009
Nirvana
By Annmarie Lockhart
This is not your
run-of-the-mill
candy store,
not the place
to pocket M&Ms,
Skittles, Dots,
or Juicyfruit.
This is a spun-sugar
temple where
fairies paint
stripes of sweet
on sticky pastel
licks of heaven
and chocolate,
caramel, and
marshmallow
pillows beckon
you dreamward.
Nirvana
By Annmarie Lockhart
This is not your
run-of-the-mill
candy store,
not the place
to pocket M&Ms,
Skittles, Dots,
or Juicyfruit.
This is a spun-sugar
temple where
fairies paint
stripes of sweet
on sticky pastel
licks of heaven
and chocolate,
caramel, and
marshmallow
pillows beckon
you dreamward.
