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This week let’s write a poem where we incorporate the titles of six books pulled at random from my shelves. The titles are: Carve the RunesFor InstanceHarping OnIn the Palm of your HandSeeking the HookTeahouse of the Almighty This is a prompt that Living Poetry’s founder, Angelika, regularly gives us during Germination Workshops and I … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words field, game and husband in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.
This week let’s write a poem featuring a vending machine. Did you know there were vending machines in ancient Rome? I don’t think that fact alone is worthy of a poem but I do think vending machines are under-represented in poetry. Let’s change that by posting such a poem in the comments below.
Don’t get distracted by August. Post your poem in the comments below.
This week let’s write a drain poem. Think about the act of liquids draining and come up with a new metaphor since the common colloquial of feeling “drained” has been done. Surprise me with something new. Just be sure to post the residue in the comments below.
This week let’s write a poem with the words common, rise and Wordsworth in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.
This week let’s write a Born in the somewhere poem. Replace somewhere with the place you were born and make the poem about being born there. However, I must insist, DO NOT write a Born in the USA poem! It’s been done. Of course, the somewhere might not be a place at all, if you … Continue reading
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