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This week’s prompt: first lines Below is a list of first lines from various poems by Kay Ryan. Pick one and make it your title or your first line and then write a poem. Wherever the eye lingers It takes a courageous It’s a pickle, this life. The moral is Trying to walk It worked … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write a Minute Poem Courtesy of Robert Lee Brewer: Some forms have a long, exotic history. Some forms are relatively new, but have a well-known founder. Others just seem to spring out of nowhere. Such appears to be the case with our most recent poetic form: the minute poem. The rules are … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: rocks Write about river rocks, creek pebbles, ocean boulders, or beach sand. What is special about them… are they prettier when wet? is it amazing how long they sit there unchanged to the human eye while water keeps washing over them? how about their journey, predetermined down the river bed or sand … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual
This week’s prompt: Learning We are going to write a three-part poem: 1) think about several instances in your childhood where you learned something -> either intellectually or physically, such as reading, writing or swimming, tennis, etc. 2) pick one of these and write a poem about it (part I) 3) now think about instances … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: erasure poem We haven’t done an erasure poem in a long time: pick a newspaper article (newspaper or online (print it if you pick an online article)) or a page in a book you are about to throw out… any piece of existing writing. take a black sharpie and read through the … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual – homeless
This week’s prompt: having the last word In a conflict (any conflict) if you could have the last word, what would it be? Make those last words the title of your poem and then write about it. Happy Writing!
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