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Tomorrow we celebrate the Lunar New Year and, under the Chinese calendar, the Year of the Tiger begins so this week let’s write a tiger poem. Let’s honor those big cats whose ancestors once ate our ancestors and post the results in the comments below.
This week let’s write a frost poem. There are several different types of frost to explore and bonus points for an allusion to the great 20th century poet. Post your chill in the comments below.
This week let’s write a poem with the words apply, sometimes and success 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. Believe it or not, I rolled the dice and really … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with an epigraph. Think about your favorite author, doesn’t have to be a poet, and find a quote or a clever line from their work, then write a poem in reaction to it, using the line as the epigraph to your poem. If you can’t think of any, may … Continue reading
Happy National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day! Post your mouth-watering poem in the comments below.
This week let’s write a celebration or celebratory poem. You can celebrate the end of the old year and the beginning of the new or you can celebrate some artist’s work or any beauty you experience Even though it’s Monday morning and things look bleak, there’s still plenty to celebrate so post your poetry in … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words dark, frost and long 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 mistletoe poem. I found the first sentence of its Wikipedia entry very inspiring, “Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales.” It’s a parasite and its taxonomic order starts with Santa! How can you not write a poem? Give it a kiss then post it … Continue reading
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