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Word Stirrer Jan 14
Prompt: Before ____ it was ____
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Word Stirrer Jan 12 26
Prompt: what do you look up to see?
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Creative Companionship Notes & Questions
what is your poetry business's trueline and tagline? what does that tagline mean to people?
what are your consistent messages and images/associations?
how is your offer unlike anything else?
what is the journey someone goes on from being unfamiliar with you to being loyal?
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Word Stirrer: Jan 8 2026
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Gilana Araeva
Jan 09
The day starts in darkness
The day starts in somber
It’s oh-oh-oh one on the clock
The day is born
When the day starts to grow
The night wants to say goodbye
A glass of water will touch your lips
It’s the night’s last kiss
It’s always 5am somewhere
It’s always time to make your first sip
Your sweetest sip
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Word Stirrer: Jan 7 2026
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Caroline Mariotti
Jan 07
Some day, my prince will come
We'll fall in love for ever
have nice kids
that's happiness
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Word Stirrer: Jan 6 26
the most powerful form of nature you have seen
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Caroline Mariotti
Jan 07
The most powerful form of nature I’ve ever seen is the massive icebergs along Greenland’s eastern coast, near Angmagssalik. Thousands of ice cathedrals drift silently across the sea. I took this photo while kayaking among them, in August 2010. This coast is the wildest part of Greenland,
I love it, and next August, I’ll be back, paddling through that frozen world again.
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Word Stirrer: Jan 4 26
Though long the chain, its links but closer bind.
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what is something you keep putting off even though it would only take 5 minutes
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Word Stirrer: Jan 3 26
from Chapter 1 of Winnie The Pooh
Prompt:
write about something you cannot live without
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Caroline Mariotti
Jan 04
I could definitely exist
without a lot of material things,
like a cup of hot coffee in the morning,
or a page-turner novel waiting in my bed
I could strip my days down
to a kind of essential lifestyle
eating, sleeping, working now and then,
alone or socializing a little, it doesn't matter
But I can’t live without deeply feeling
that I’m alive,
from the tips of my hair
to my toes
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