This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, April 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be
"Cozy Coping Skills." I'll be soliciting ideas for caregivers, first responders, counselors, clergy, outreach workers, activists, volunteers, teachers, parents, college students, bohemians, comares, superheroes, supervillains, other people who teach or use coping skills,
meditating, crafting, playing music,
forest bathing, relaxing, volunteering, supporting people in hard times, offering crash space, helping someone move,
BookCrossing,
yarnbombing, planting trees,
creating intimacy, making friends, getting to know each other, cooking together, discovering things, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, sharing, fixing what's broke, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible,
Triton Teen Centers,
the Peace Store, charities, homeless shelters, sobering centers, mentor circles, support groups, churches, sharehouses, intentional communities, other polyhomes, life skills or family departments in schools, clubs, quiet rooms, inclusive workplaces, Thalassia, the Maldives, parks, community gardens, other peaceful hangouts,
self-compassion, healthy touch,
intentional neighboring, altruism, harm reduction, diversity, inclusivity,
safety pin peace signs, interfaith work, family dynamics, alternative family structures, partnerships not based on sex/romance, emotional closeness, homemaking,
hygge, hot tea or cocoa,
comfort food, interspecies relationships,
vivaria, trial and error, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.
34 Fuzzy Products To Make Your Life A Bit Cozier35 Cozy Things For Every Room In Your Home100 Simple Cozy Moments to Enjoy150 Random Acts of Kindness 200 Coping Skills by TopicAmong my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One has neurodiverse characters coping with life in space.
Arts and Crafts America largely copes with challenges using creativity.
The Blueshift Troupers take care of themselves and each other while traveling the galaxy helping colonies solve problems.
Clay of Life has a lot of cozy coping moments between a blacksmith and a golem.
Daughters of the Apocalypse requires coping skills for survival.
Frankenstein's Family encourages coziness and companionship over torches and pitchforks.
The Moon Door features a women's chronic pain support group, which is all about being gentle with each other.
Peculiar Obligations has Quakers, who are good at coping skills.
Polychrome Heroics is largely about self-care and people helping people. Threads particularly focused on this include Antimatter and Stalwart Stan, Aquariana, the Big One, Iron Horses, Officer Pink, Rutledge, and Trichromatic Attachments.
Quixotic Ideas is fantasy with a high level of competence and compassion.
Schrodinger's Heroes save the world from alternate dimensions, and they take care of each other.
Or you can ask for something new.
Linkbacks reveal a verse of any open linkback poem.
If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week. (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts.
I am now.) Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog.
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wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "earth tones" square in my 4-1-25 card for the Aesthetics Bingo Fest. It belongs to the series Arts and Crafts America.
