Tag: Magic 8 Ball

Magic 8 Ball Poems 

I’m honored to be the host today for the second day of the October Open Write at http://www.ethicalela.com. You can read my full prompt below, but also please visit the website link above later in the day to see the poems that others have written.

I subscribe to Poetry, the periodical published by The Poetry Foundation that features modern-day poets and their poems.  I enjoy the inspiration that I find here – seed starters of ideas, borrowed lines, concepts, and forms.  Such was the case when I stumbled across Magic 8 Ball by Nicole Gonzalez.  You can read her poem below, noting the questions she asks, with those classic 8-ball answers that pop up in a black-liquid window, sharing all the truths and secrets of universe.  

Magic Eight Ball | The Poetry Foundation

Process

Consider the 12 Magic 8 Ball answers below.  Use the responses to craft a poem with questions followed by these answers.  Your poem can be humorous, serious, or completely random.  You may choose to use all of the responses below, some of them or you own responses, or the same response every time (like a broken Magic 8 Ball to incorporate repetition).   You could even make it a fun game by writing your list of questions on one side, writing the answers on strips of paper, and then pulling the answers from a hat to make the poetry writing experience feel extra-magical today.  Also, there is a Magic 8 Ball online that will generate answers (I learned this from Kevin, the first poet to respond to the prompt this morning).

Concentrate and ask again

Outlook not so good

Very doubtful

Without a doubt

Better not tell you now

My sources say no

It is decidedly so

Ask again later

Yes definitely

My reply is no

Cannot predict now

You may rely on it

Here is my poem, taken from the inspiration of Nicole Gonzalez:

Divine Truths in a Magic 8 Ball 

I’m passing the pen to you to write your own poem. Please share it on the http://www.ethicalela.com website!