Recently I have been taking part in one of Beth Kempton’s #tinypoem challenges. I love these as they keep the creative juices flowing. You get a one-word prompt for the day and 10 minutes with no editing to come up with a poem. Simple, right?
A recent word prompt stirred nostalgic childhood memories. The word was FOLDED.
Immediately a picture formed in my mind’s eye.
Who else remembers making “fortune tellers” from a folded square of paper when they were a child?
Who can still remember how to make one?
Back then we didn’t need tarot cards or astrology charts to predict our future. All we needed was a piece of paper and our imagination.
Those were the days….
Folded
A square of paper
Folded on the diagonal twice
Opened out
Corners folded into the centre
1, 2, 3 and 4
Flip it over and repeat.
How many of these have I made?
What fortunes did they foretell?
Coral McCallum 