Essie Writes Poetry

Today’s prompt – start with a time of day. This one is based off of how I feel when I wake up in a thunderstorm. Do you ever feel like it’d ruin the sacredness of the world renewing itself if you turned on the light when it was raining? Maybe it’s just me and I’m […]

Today’s prompt is nostalgia, and I used this adjective to convey a very personal message. Yeah, I ugly cried writing it, so hopefully you’ll ugly cry reading it. Before I share this with you, I want you to know that, yes, my mom is an absolute angel and one of the most amazing people on […]

The escapril prompt for today – back to nature. I don’t feel like this measures up to everyone else’s amazing work, but here it is. I decided to incorporate my current emotions on having to study instead of taking the day off to walk around my city. Canadian cities are known for their beauty, and […]

The #escapril prompt for today is anxiety. Although I don’t have anxiety, I had a friend who did. At the time I didn’t understand what it was or how it affected people, and I’m afraid I wasn’t the most graceful person, socially speaking. Now that it’s been a few years, I know a lot more, […]

For some reason I decided to push myself beyond sanity and do both NaPoWriMo and Escapril. If you don’t know what Escapril is, the TL;DR version of it is artists being artsy on Instagram in April and adhering to daily prompts throughout the month. The Escapril prompt for day three required incorporating music. Each of […]

It’s the second day of NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month), but this was from yesterday. This also corresponds with Escapril’s day two prompt – hooray! Although it’s officially spring, it doesn’t feel like it here in Canada. April First – April showers bringMay flowers, right? Well, it doesNot feel like spring yet. The sky is […]