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This will be the only post in April, National Poetry Month. Feel free to use the American Academy of Poets poster for the month as a prompt. Many of us are writing a poem-a-day to celebrate. I tend to use the daily prompts posted at Robert Lee Brewer’s Write Better Poetry blog but others swear … Continue reading
This week let’s a useless poem. A lot of people out there think poetry is useless but we know better. Write about something that is useless or maybe about those times when you feel useless. Whatever you choose to write put it to good use by posting it in the comments below.
This week let’s write a poem with the words determine, state and turtle 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 green poem without using the word “green”. That color has come to represent a lot in our language so let’s play with that. It’s not easy but post your poem in the comments below.
You know what to do.
This week let’s write a question poem. As those of you who’ve served in workshops with me know, I don’t like questions in poems. Usually they can either be reworded as statements or simply omitted and the poem becomes stronger but for this prompt write a poem that poses “who”, “what”, “where”, “when”, “why” and … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words circle, few and quality 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 love poem (since Valentine’s Day is Wednesday) but you may not use the word “love” nor any of its forms in the either the poem, title or epigraph. Get out your thesauri and post the results in the comments below.
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