Sunday, March 17, 2013

Anything is a Trigger, in 100 words

Every week I check out the prompt for Velvet Verbosity's weekly 100 Words challenge. Every week I think about participating, mentally forming an entry but rarely do I follow through.  This week I tried harder, and since the challenge host got to meet Queen Latifah last week she gave us an extra day to finish the challenge-otherwise I might not have made it.***

This week's word is "shake"; we can use the prompt however we feel, as long as the result is 100 words. My 100 are titled "Anything is a Trigger".


no advice
            available,
none too helpful
            anyway,

watch for signs -
ha, good luck -
            the effect is inconsistent
one beer, one case;
one shot, one pint, one fifth -
            doesn't matter
expect the worst,
don't bother
hoping for the best-

            just hope
your smile
            isn't too big,
            too small;
your tone
            isn't too happy,
            too sad,
            sarcastic at all.

Don't be noticeable.
            but, again,
it doesn't matter -
anything, nothing,
            is a trigger.
Just survive until
you are
            safe in bed.

in the morning:
don't ask
            why his hands shake,
be sure
bruised feelings
            aren't visible
on your face.
           
            anything
                        is a trigger.


I figure since this is my first time participating in the challenge that I might as well fully participate and include the blog hop--be sure to check out the rest of this week's entrants!



****Edited-I misunderstood the blog host's post, she doesn't meet Queen Latifah until this week. The extra day was because she hosted her friend's poetry :)****

7 comments:

  1. when I read your title I wondered if this was where you were going with it. Well done and welcome to the challenge.

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    1. Thank you, Barbara.
      It was one of the first two images that came to mind and it persistently beat out the other all week when I thought about the challenge, so I had to go with it.

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  2. Wow. Potent! Welcome to the challenge. :)

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  3. Oh, and p.s. I didn't meet Queen Latifah last week. I'm meeting her THIS week.

    Last week I hosted a poet friend on Monday night when I usually post, so I posted late and gave everyone an extra day. :)

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    1. Oops! I completely misunderstood your post then! I actually thought you had hosted your friend on that particular night because you were out of town to see Queen Latifah--after re-reading, I have NO idea how I even came up with that!!! Very excited you get to meet her, still this week or last week haha :)

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  4. Nicely done! I keep wanting to write for Velvet, but seeing that I haven't done Trifect in a long time... sigh. I need some warm weather to perk me up, I guess. I'm glad you did this!

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    1. Thank you Sandra. I read the challeges every week and tell myself I'm going to take the time to do them and then suddenly it's an hour past the deadline and I've got a half-finished pile of words. I hope the warm weather comes to your area soon-we had t-shirt weather a week and a half ago, since then it's been sweaters & jackets only :(

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