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This week’s prompt: visual prompt
This week’s prompt: “your voice is sand scattered in wind”. This is the last line in the poem ‘Afterword’ by Louise Glueck. I thought it was striking to think of my voice as sand that scatters in the wind. Does this statement have a positive or negative connotation to you? Does the metaphor relate for you to … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual prompt… Happy Writing!
This week’s prompt: write a 10 word poem One of my favorite exercises! Brevity can really distill a situation or emotion down to its essence. Write a poem with just 10 words. Here is a website that has published (up until 2014) 6-word stories. And here are my attempts at 10 word poems: Whether … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write an Alba / Aubade or an Ode An Aubade is a love song sung at dawn. The setting at dawn usually plays a role in the poem. If you are not so much into love songs, pick the Ode, which sings the praise of a person or object, such as Shelley’s … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: bravery, courage Write a poem consisting of an image that expresses courage or bravery to you. If you see courage expressed what does it look like? If you have multiple scenes in your head write a sequence poem. Or write about a time when you had to muster quite a bit of courage. … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: petition to be inconsolable Laure-Anne Bosselaar wrote this wonderful poem by the same title. The speaker just didn’t want to be comforted that day and listed 14 woes. Write down your woes, doesn’t have to be exactly 14. List the little everyday things and the big heartbreaking things that make life a little harder. … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: describe your perfect date … that doesn’t mean everything has to go perfectly… if you were out on a date, today, what has to take place to make you super happy and what are the things that can go wrong and you couldn’t care less about? Try the poem in first person … Continue reading
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