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This week’s prompt: when can you say it if not at Christmas Write a poem about an emotional confession to someone in your life. Describe one of those situations where you would normally not admit to your feelings but because it is Christmas you are going be bold and give the feeling sound. It doesn’t … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write a Rispetto (Italian for Respect) Definition: A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry, is a complete poem of two rhyming quatrains or one 8-line stanza (octave) with meter. The meter is usually iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd or abababcc. A Heroic Rispetto is written in Iambic pentameter, usually … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual
This week’s prompt: write about being flung into the sky If you had someone in your childhood who threw you high up in the air and then catch you again, write about that experience. If you didn’t have such a person, then imagine what it would feel like being flung into the air… being weightless … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: Autumn What stands out about fall to you? Is it the leaf colors? Or is it the dying of the light? Is it the moist cold smell of nature decaying? Or the growing silence as the animals retreat into their winter hide-outs? Is it the last very few warmer days? Or the … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write a poem emphasizing Cacophony Definition: jarring, discordant sound – generally associated with harsh consonants, rather than with vowels. Example: Don Juan, Canton the 7th by Lord Byron “Bombs, drums, guns, bastions, batteries, bayonets, bullets– Hard words, which stick in the soft Muses’ gullets.” Craft used in poetry (and other genre, I … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: “all of life is a story” (after Joseph Campbell) Make up a story (or your own fantastical life-story), give it an arc, a beginning, middle and end; think about a moral for the story. The try it in different poetic forms: prose poem, ballad, epic poem (those allow for longwinded story telling). … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write an acrostic poem Definition: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. If you feel up for a challenge: a double-acrostic employs both the first and the last letters of the lines. Here is an example by Ben Johnson hiding … Continue reading
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