Poetry Challenge #317-Digging Up Fossils

Fossils are the preserved remains of a once-living thing from a past geological age. Sometimes they’re actual creatures, and sometimes they are impressions preserved in rock that show what the creature looked like.

Why am I sharing this?

Because October 11th is. . . National Fossil Day!

Even the National Park Service celebrates Fossil Day! Click over later for a list of NPS ways to celebrate fossils!

Fossils are found in Rocks

Fun Fossil ideas can be found at playideas.com.

Here are 25 Fun Fossil Ideas for Kids

There are books about Fossils. Here’s my personal fav: Old Rock (is not boring) by Deb Pilutti:

And my all-time favorite Rock on his way to becoming a Fossil:

Fossilization is also in the works for Nobel Prize winning novelist & poet Francois Mauriac, who coincidentally or not, was born on National Fossil Day: Oct 11, 1885. As a precursor to this week’s prompt let’s start with some of his words that should be etched in rock:

Poetry Challenge #317

Digging Up Fossils

Maybe you have old notebooks/files containing fossilized poems, poems written in another time in your life.

Find an old notebook or file—the older the better—and read through some of your old writing. See if you can find something that has preserved an impression of a different time or feeling. Using that “fossil”, write a new poem.

You can use some of the actual words or write new and capture a feeling or impression of the original.

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing!

Don’t Think About it, Write It!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge 2700+ 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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