The Reverie

A Poetic Publications Journal

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The Red Scare | Poetry Prompt

The Red Scare | Poetry Prompt #policial #publishingopportunity #poets #amwriting #writestuff

This month’s prompt is about the alleged ties to Russia. The past month, it seems like every other day there was another potential connection with the Trump cabinet and Putin. What does it all mean? What does it mean to you? Is it the true story? Is it a smoke screen? Is there more to this than we’re hearing? Are we focusing too much on those Russian ties?

You tell me.

I want your poetry. Dark,…

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Syria | Poetry Prompt

Syria | Poetry Prompt

Before this prompt, the ideas have been fairly esoteric in nature. This month, I was waffling between the word I was interested in hearing more about. However, with President Trump’s position on the Syrian crisis, the refugee, and the response to the Syrian President Bashar Assad’s chemical attack against his citizens; I had to know, how do you feel? What do you think about this red line? How are…

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Fake News | Poetry Prompt

Fake News | Poetry Prompt #poetryprompt #indietuesday #publishing #poems #poetry

I thought at first about using “Alternative Facts” but I feel like “Fake News” could lead to some much more interesting thoughts and comments.

Go there. Where? Wherever your mind takes you when you hear these words. These prompts are about what you’re feeling, what you’re seeing. What’s going on in your world. This is the most remarkable presidency in our lifetime regardless of where you sit on…

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Resistance | Poetry Prompt

Resistance | Poetry Prompt #amwriting #poetryprompt #theresistance #45

In times of stress, times of trouble, and times of need the one thing a writer can do, is write. Our experiences, feelings, emotions, thoughts, observations can be used as damning slashing hacking at the establishment or a soothing balm to try to heal wounds and bring the people together.

This prompt isn’t about one political leaning over another. It’s about you telling your tale:  your…

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Looking for a few good poets | Let's Talk About

Looking for a few good poets | Let's Talk About It

ATTENTION:

Poets, who would like to be a part of a discussion about this election for the podcast. This will work best if your poetry as some sort of political lean. If you know someone who would be perfect, send them my way. We’ve got some work to do and some interesting conversations to hold.

Contact me via email: [email protected] Subject: poet project

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Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival | Submission Opportunity

Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival | Submission Opportunity #poetry

Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival—A call for submissions in response to the harder times that have come back around. Do you remember surreptitiously flipping through your library’s card catalog to search out who you were and finding only references to “the male homosexual” or “sexuality, aberrant” and no listings at all for gender? Did you strain to hear when your parents lowered their…

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Beating the Big Bad | Poetry Prompt

Beating the Big Bad | PoetryPrompt #poets #amwriting #writestuff #MondayBlogs

This weekend we were waiting on the islands for the hurricane to hit. Well it had been downgraded to a tropic storm, but with the potential for 50 mph winds and so much rain, the name isn’t really that important. Initially, we didn’t know anything was going on. We’d gone to watch Star Trek indulging in our nerdy side. I loved it and totally bought the StarTrek insignia cup.  Afterward, I turned…

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Cycles in life | Poetry Prompt

Cycles in life | Poetry Prompt #amwriting #MondayBlogs #poets

This week at The Reverie Journal, I’m carrying over a poetry prompt that I wrote for Poets on the Page. I was thinking about cicadas and how much they are annoying and terrible. But also, the little amount of time they have actually above ground and living. Already their siren song that sounds like the soundtrack of a slasher film has died down around here. They rise out of the ground in droves…

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Orlando Tragedy | Poetry Prompt

Orlando Tragedy | Poetry Prompt #poetry #MondayBlogs

Whenever there’s a mass shooting in the United States, I always want to write something about it. To give words to the emotions choking my throat. I never know what to say. I never know if it’s appropriate, or if my words are even necessary. So I stay silent.

Today, I want to give myself permission to write something about the Orlando tragedy and I want to extend that permission to you poets as…

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Hunger Mountain| Publishing Opportunity

Hunger Mountain| Publishing Opportunity

We at The Reverie Journal are trying to create a community where we help each other. Each week, we give you a prompt for writing, we try to highlight one of you poets (If you’d like to be in the spotlight on Wednesday learn more here) and on Thursdays we post a publishing opportunity. Of course, we’d like for you to publish with us, but as poets we realize that publishing can be a tough part of…

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Weathering the Storm | Poetry Prompt

Weathering the Storm | Poetry Prompt #MondayBlogs #poets #amwriting

Remember when Howard Beale implored people to stick the head out of the window and yell, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” in the classic Network? The thunder rolling in the backdrop as voices were heard calling out their anger all over the country, punctuated the sound sharp cries of their distress. Without that rain and the thunder, the scene wouldn’t have had as much…

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Smothered - Poetry Prompt

Smothered- Poetry Prompt #MondayBlogs @penpaperpad @lauraashleylord #poets

In the United States, yesterday was Mother’s Day. A day where we celebrate the women who have raised us through gifts, hugs, and a promise to not have to cook together.

As the dayprogressed and I read through my Facebook feed (like you do), I noticed there were soooooo many people who have truly complicated relationships with the mother figure in their lives. Whether she is toxic, overbearing,…

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Insomniac Song | Poetry Prompt

Insomniac Song | Poetry Prompt

I’ve noticed that creatives, writers especially often have trouble sleeping aren’t able to sleep. Are our brains hardwired to ignore biological functions like sleep when writing wants to happen (or when writing refuses us)? Insomnia is such a persistent and unwanted bed buddy. It just won’t take no for an answer.  Even though sometimes sleep is the time when those creative thoughts are more…

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Let's Talk About...A Q&A with Laura A. Lord

Let's Talk About...A Q&A with Laura A. Lord #indieauthor #poetry #submissions

Every month I interview an indie author for my PenPaperPad Talks Books segment on my YouTube channel. This week, I interviewed Laura A. Lord, one of our esteemed editors. We discuss her poetry, self-esteem, and The Reverie Journal and our submissions.

One thing we didn’t mention in this interview that we’ve been talking about recently is the possibility of accepting spoken word pieces for our…

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When I Was - Poetry Prompt

When I Was – Poetry Prompt

Sometimes a piece of music touches us and inspires us in amazing ways, and while sometimes we let you find your own music to inspire you, today I have chosen a piece for you.

Lukas Graham’s song, 7 Years, travels through one man’s life and through an unknown future. I love the way he marks the passage of time with certain ages and specific things that were said to him at that age:

Once I was…

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Big Pulp| Publishing Opportunity

Big Pulp| Publishing Opportunity #poetry #amwriting #publishing

The key to getting published is at once simple and painful…You have to put yourself out there. Keep submitting your work and sharing it with the world. Remember that you can always submit to our Write for Us segment and that our magazine submissions are now open for the year.

Big Pulp “defines pulp-fiction very broadly: it’s lively, challenging, thought-provoking, thrilling, and fun…” They are…

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Parallel by Single Strides

Parallel by Single Strides

Bring me a sunset in a cup Sprinkle in drops of rain Watch as afternoon beauty Is mixed with the world’s pain

Bring me the starry skin onto a plate Mix in the dreams that lay awake See as wishes fall to the floor As the world gives up – the stars shine no more

Bring me daylight locked in a jar Add in shadows that roam the night Witness as hope stirs with fear Welcome to the parallels of life my…

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