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25 PROMPTS FOR MAY 2026: Emily Dickinson-themed
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Posted by: <span lj:user='existence101' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://existence101.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://existence101.dreamwidth.org/'><b>existence101</b></a></span><br /><br /><table height="500px" cellspacing="10" border="border"><tr height="20%" align="center"><td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">I have a bird in spring</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">A wounded deer leaps highest</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">She dealt her pretty words like Blades</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">In the peaceful west</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">Nature - the gentlest Mother is</td>
</tr><tr height="20%" align="center"><td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">It keeps the nerves progressive</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">The saddest noise, the sweetest noise</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">I could not fix the Year -</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">Good Night, because we must</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">The Dark - felt beautiful -</td>
</tr><tr height="20%" align="center"><td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">Without external sound </td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">The Judge is like the Owl</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">A sweep of Gray</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">And the Juggler of Day is gone</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">She staked her feathers - Gained an Arc </td>
</tr><tr height="20%" align="center"><td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">What is forbidden utterly</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">The Pendulum begins to count -</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">Whose limit none have ever seen</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">And still the pensive spring returns</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">It makes the Parting tranquil</td>
</tr><tr height="20%" align="center"><td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">By Processes of Size</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">My Faith that Dark adores -</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">To gather Paradise -</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">If anybody's friend be dead</td>
<td width="20%" style="border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle">And putting love away</td>
</tr></table><br /><br /><br /><br />For easy use in your journals:<br /><textarea><table height=500px cellspacing=10 border><tr height=20% align=center><td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>I have a bird in spring</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>A wounded deer leaps highest</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>She dealt her pretty words like Blades</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>In the peaceful west</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>Nature - the gentlest Mother is</td>
</tr><tr height=20% align=center><td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>It keeps the nerves progressive</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>The saddest noise, the sweetest noise</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>I could not fix the Year -</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>Good Night, because we must</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>The Dark - felt beautiful -</td>
</tr><tr height=20% align=center><td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>Without external sound </td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>The Judge is like the Owl</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>A sweep of Gray</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>And the Juggler of Day is gone</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>She staked her feathers - Gained an Arc </td>
</tr><tr height=20% align=center><td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>What is forbidden utterly</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>The Pendulum begins to count -</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>Whose limit none have ever seen</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>And still the pensive spring returns</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>It makes the Parting tranquil</td>
</tr><tr height=20% align=center><td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>By Processes of Size</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>My Faith that Dark adores -</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>To gather Paradise -</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>If anybody's friend be dead</td>
<td width=20% style='border: 1px solid #900; vertical-align:middle'>And putting love away</td>
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