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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As if life isn't exciting enough, . . when I checked my email, this jumped out at me:

“Kelly is this alarming post about you true?”

And this:

“Harmful and damaging events from your past may have surfaced . . . ”

Then this:

“Things don’t look good for you Kelly”

— Charlie???

&nb… — ***"DANGER! Will Robinson . . . "***

“Kelly, Deleterious Post About You About To Be Published”

— Michal P.

I clicked over immediately. Horror of horrors! Could it be that someone is spreading rumors about little ole me?

“ +++++ Potentially Upsetting Information Posted About You ++++ ===========================================================================

Alert: JJ-P-1904127903

Kelly negative events from your recent past may have been posted to your online file
”

— Reputation Notice (2)

Someone is TRASH TALKING me!!!! Who? . . . Of all the nerve! . . . What were they saying???

You know I was temped to follow the link. Who doesn't want to know what they --those busy-bodies--are saying about us?

Of course, I know better . . . (But it was on my mind)

Haven't. . . (Maybe it wasn't even about me. There are lots of people with my name...like that basketball coach. . . and that realtor--)

Yet . . .

But then I got to thinking: That's what they want. For me to follow that link, right?

There are no doubt scads of folks out there who do follow the link. Where does it take them? What horrors are waiting at the bottom of that particular rabbit hole?

or . . . OR . . . (That niggly curious cat voice is what gets us. . . )

Sure, I know it's a ploy to get me to click on that link, leading to some sight. But, what if there's a really great PRIZE I missing out on by not following the link???

To think there are people out there who spend countless hours coming up with ways to SPAM us. What if these same folks applied their considerable creative talents to real problems, To paraphrase Dr. Suess, Oh the things they could think!

What did I do? . . . What didn't I do? . . .  Does he-she-it like me? . . . What do they know? . . . — What did I do? . . . What didn't I do? . . . Does he-she-it like me? . . . What do they know? . . .

That got me thinking. Here's my thought: Let's give them something to talk about.

MAKE IT GOOD!

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Poetry Challenge #221-Buckle Up Sherman!