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Creative Companionship Notes & Questions


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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
Gilana Araeva
yesterday

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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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

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the most powerful form of nature you have seen

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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.

Petrarch


what is something you keep putting off even though it would only take 5 minutes

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Ezra Godson
Ezra Godson
5 days ago

Getting out of bed after re-setting my alarm for 5 minutes.

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Word Stirrer: Jan 3 26


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from Chapter 1 of Winnie The Pooh


Prompt:

write about something you cannot live without

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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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Word Stirrer: Jan 1 26

asked how old he was

the boy in the new kimono

stretched all five fingers

(Issa)


Prompt:

write something about age


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Ezra Godson
Ezra Godson
5 days ago

I watched his handwriting flutter underneath dim candlelight. Dipping a quill in obsidian ink, his thick fingers were marked with years of calluses near the nuckles. The old papyrus he scrawled on looked like his skin, aged with liver spots and bluish veins protruding like branches toward heaven.

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Welcome To Word Stirrer: Prompts To Write To

I'll be sharing pieces of poems and questions to use as a guide to help inspire your own writing Feel free to comment to a piece with what comes to you!

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Creative Companionship: Zag Part 3

Questions we'll be on today! 1) What is the purpose of your poetry business? Then, what is the vision?


2) What are the trends you want to take advantage of?


3) Which area in your industry can you become the first to come to mind and the most popular?


4) Finish the sentence: we are the only ____ that ____


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