MOVE ME POETRY | POETRY PROMPT: POLAROID / WILDCARD
Poetry Battle Highlights
For the week of September 15th, 2023
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When we were kids, the Polaroid camera was the “magic box” of image-making. Before we had smartphones and social media, there were Polaroids and picture walls. I had inherited a film camera from my folks, and I used to love taking pictures and the mystery of the development process (which I got to smell first-hand when I was taking art classes in college, and then tried to make a darkroom in my walk-in closet — ventilation is a must!!!) We would send the roll of film in and wait a week to get it back (no “quickie photo labs”).
But Polaroids were magic! They transformed before your eyes from a white sheet of plastic and emulsion to a finished picture in a matter of minutes. Watching those colours appear was amazing! But they were often blurry, and the…
