Inspiring Creative Writing

Thank you Becky Paton, we loved the natural prompts to tickle our imaginations, including crystals, fir cones, stones, feathers – and even a set of antlers!
We got off to a slightly late start in the very cold hall which had a slight Dickensian feeling, writing in fingerless gloves with our coats on! But the creative spark still kindled, and here are some pieces, including Haiku (short Japanese poems) written by participants:
Knees nose feel biting cold
Yet warm cheeks people pens story’s told
Empty cups full warm hearts
by Katrina
Look through a window
See the see-saw man jumping
In grapefruit juices
by Jeff
A Longer Poem …
I seen you there in the hot sand
a fragment of others around you
Your fluid shape your form enticed me
to bend to touch to take you in my hand rub loose sand from you discover your many layers and colours
You were not the peacock
like many around you
but you had many colours, shades, layers and a blinking eye that followed me flickering in the bright sunlight
I could feel the smoothness
Of the crashing waves you had endured
I put you to my ear
and could hear them still
raise the saltiness you’d captured
Your many layers mark time
what stories did you hold
a trudging dinosaur
the first steps of man
All to the beat of crashing waves
echoing messages from a distant land
Memories still beating now
Blended with the drums
and a hot hot sun
by Jeff