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This week’s prompt is a question from Neruda’s The Book of Questions: choose one of the two questions and write a poem either in response to the question or contemplating the question. 1) How did the abandoned bicycle win its freedom? 2) Who shouted with glee when the color blue was born? Also, put a specific … Continue reading
For this week: a visual prompt -> surreal photography by Rene Asmussen
For this week’s prompt: start your poem with “Secretly,” (not as the title, but the poem itself) Use some or all of the following words in your poem: fog, red, roof, hounded, pray, sand, glisten Happy Writing!
For this week’s prompt: write a poem inspired by the phrase ‘it’s a simple dish’. This phrase could be the title. Or it could be part of the poem or not show up there at all. The poem could be about a dish or use the dish as a metaphor for something life is dishing … Continue reading
For this week’s prompt: write about taking a detour This could be a traditional detour on the road -> from highway to scenic route; from regular road to being lost in a field; from being on your road trip to having to stop by an aunt’s or cousin’s house because you are in the “neighborhood”. … Continue reading
For this week’s prompt: write about this fashionista Miss ‘Rosy Maple Moth’ This picture was taken at our own Shelley Lake in Raleigh. I had no idea that moths could be that flashy, risking being spotted and eaten for one glorious moment of sparkle and glamour. The courage! Happy Writing!
For this week’s prompt, imagine the following scenario: someone who is close to you falls in love with someone who, you can clearly see, is not good for your friend/loved one, emotionally, financially or physically, etc… What is your long-term reaction to that person’s decision, what is the state of mind you settle into when all … Continue reading
For this week’s prompt: write an imitation poem to Lorca’s poem ‘Death’. You could only imitate the form or the topic or the highly associative approach to a difficult topic or you could stay very close to the poem and write your highly associative version of a Death poem in the same structure. Have fun! … Continue reading
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