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This week’s prompt: your parents’ slogans Make a list of the phrases your mother and father – or maybe your grandparents – always used on you as a kid. Could be phrases you hated or loved… could be good or bad jokes that came over and over again… anything that had a repetition factor in … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual prompt… enjoy!
This week’s prompt: write about the one thing you never got as a kid that you always wanted… a puppy, to play the piano, a certain bicycle, roller skates, that princess dress or cowboy hat and chaps, tap dancing lessons, a kite, … What ever it was, why did you want it so bad? What … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write an imagist poem The Anglo-American Imagist movement started in the 1910s and favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. Ezra Pound coined the term by submitting three poems by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) to Poetry magazine and calling her an Imagiste. Here are a couple of examples (imagist poem can be longer, I picked short ones to preserve space): In … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: a visual prompt… Happy Writing!
This week’s prompt: write about you or your circumstances when you are 200 years old. Here is a poem by Donald Hall that prompted the idea. You could write about how you interpret and read a technologically advance age through the lens of CDs, cell phones and laptops. Or how you miss Soda and Hamburgers … Continue reading
This week’s prompt is: chocolate! Oh sweet, oh bitter chocolate! You can describe what it feels like to eat chocolate, what it does for your well-being (or figure), you could go into history and write about how important chocolate was a few hundred years ago. You could write about people you are somehow connect … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: giving thanks! … yeah, but not the traditional poem about what you are thankful for (you can write that, too, if you want). Rather, write a poem about where you feel under appreciated! What do you do for people, where are you their strength, their pillar of hope, of smiles, of getting … Continue reading
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