Week 2.9 Prompt

This week's prompt is... Pure.


This week, think about what it means for something to be pure or impure. There are a lot of societal issues related to purity, so perhaps touch on these. Ex:
What does it mean to live a pure life? Does virginity equal purity?

Or perhaps you'd like to speak to more obvious displays of purity.

Ex:

Purism by Vona Groarke

The wind orchestrates
its theme of loneliness
and the rain
has too much glitter in it, yes.

They are like words, the wrong ones,
insisting I listen to sense.
But I too am obstinate.

I have white walls,
white curtained windows.
What need have I
of the night's jet-black,
outlandish ornament?

What I am after
is silence
in proportion
to desire,

the way music plumbs
its surfaces
as straight words do
the air between them.

I begin to learn
the simple thing

burning through
to an impulse at once lovely
and given to love

that will not be refused.


Here are some links to get you thinking:

Purity Balls - Time
www.time.com/time/magazine/art…

Virginity / The First Time
rookiemag.com/2011/09/the-firs…

Linguistic Purism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguist…



As always, be sure to include what inspired your piece in the author comments! Entries are due by (roughly) 12:00 AM EST, Friday.

There's only one more week in this round, so make your submission count!