Please write a poem or short-short of no more than 200 words using the following eight words: road, blood, parchment, earplug, feeling, frankincense, mandala, saint.

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It’s Valentine’s Day! <3!
St Valentine, for whom this feast day was attributed, was an early martyr of the Catholic Church.
Truly isn’t love a kind of martyrdom? In fact, is it really love if you are not asked to sacrifice the unthinkable? “Oh, this, I will never do, even for love…!” What have you done for love? What are you willing to do? You can even think of it this way, though it will make some of you squirm: “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:13)
When you’re buying the roses and the champagne and the candy and the condoms after work tonight, think about what love rally means. Maybe write your Valentines card after you ponder it a bit.

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I ran into this quote and thought it provoking enough to share and ask that you write about it. Any genre, any opinion, any experience…. W

“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” —John Muir

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Write a story about a pirate. You are the pirate or you know the pirate.

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Write a section of dialogue for a story and include a “muted” portion of dialogue.

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How much do you love your dog or cat? Describe that animal friendship.

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Please use the following eight words in any declension in a poem or short short of no more than 250 words: air, reconciliation, holiness, banana, trash, diamond, weal, maximum.

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Write a poem or short short about an epiphany that you have had.

The Dictionary definition pasted in below may be of assistance.

epiphany |əˈpifənē| noun (plural epiphanies) (also Epiphany) the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12).
• the festival commemorating the Epiphany on January 6.
• a manifestation of a divine or supernatural being.
• a moment of sudden revelation or insight.
DERIVATIVES epiphanic |ˌepəˈfanik| adjectiveORIGIN Middle English: from Greek epiphainein  ‘reveal.’ The sense relating to the Christian festival is via Old French epiphanie and ecclesiastical Latin epiphania .

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Write a poem or story in which you use the following 8 words in a piece of no more than 80 words in any declension and in any order:
church, year, kindling, kettle, snowstorm, nettle, fern, skin.

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Write a poem in which you include nouns or verbs beginning with every letter in the alphabet. These words do not have to appear in alphabetical order.

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