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This week let’s write a poem the includes the word redivivus. I was tidying up my night stand after it avalanched onto me overnight and near the bottom I found a book entitled The Superior Person’s Book of Words by Peter Bowler. It’s a glossary of unusual, obsolete or overly specific English words. I picked … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words century, symbolism and voice 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 an abandon poem. I intentionally left that sentence a-grammatical. Your poem can be about abandoning or being abandoned and, since we’re all poets here, we all have poems at the bottoms of directories or piles of papers, maybe recover one of them and meld it into the theme. Post your poem … Continue reading
Serve up your poem in the comments below.
This week let’s write a poem with the words epigraph, machine and race 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.
Living Poetry congratulates Ada Limón on being named the next Poet Laureate of the United States so this week let’s write a poem for her. Check out her website and Wikipedia page and what may be her most famous poem How to Triumph Like a Girl . You could then write an ekphrastic poem inspired … Continue reading
This week let’s write a native poem. You could describe some native talent or some feature from your native land. Of course, thanks to imperialism, you could “go native”. Whichever path you take, be sure to come back home and post your poem in the comments below.
Don’t forget to post your poem in the comments below before the inspiration floats away.
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