Poetry Challenge #221-Buckle Up Sherman!

Let’s pretend! Just for today—because, after all, it is December 8th, National Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. Begun by GEEK USA, participants must “spend the entire day in costume in character. The only rule is that you can not actually tell anyone that you are a time traveler.”

Poetry Challenge #221

Buckle Up Sherman!

Pretend that Doc Brown’s DeLorean or Mr. Peabody’s Time Travel Machine really works, and you can go back-back-back in time as far as you’d like, to any place you’d like. Or, if you’d rather, you can zoom-zoom forward into the future. Where would you go? To when? Why? What would you be wearing? How would you speak?

Write a poem about your travels, but, building on GEEK USA rules, do not tell us exactly where you go and when. Instead, use evocative description & dialogue to show us.

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing!

Don’t Think About it, just do it!

“Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!”….whoops, wrong show. . . “Ready, Marty?”

For inspiration, here are a few time Time Traveler books, something for everyone:

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge 2000+ days ago. Now we take turns creating prompts to share with you. Our hope is that creatives—children & adults—will use our prompts as springboards to word play time. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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