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Happy Labor Day!! This week’s prompt: write a poem using the elements and words below… include a particular weather include a color include the texture of a fabric include these words: giraffe, nails, swing, jump, napkin, prickly, scrape, read Happy Writing!
This week’s prompt: write an interlocking rubaiyat, sometimes referred to as rubai. You might be familiar with the 12th-century Persian work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It employs the Rubai. And without possibly noticing it, one of Frost’s well known poems (“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”) executes interlocking rubaiyat perfectly. Here are the rules of the … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: Money Changes Everything If you had double as much money as you have now, what would change for you? If you would inherit or win $10 million dollars, what would then change for you? Would you stop working? Would you start a philanthropic endeavor? Would your life continue as is, knowing you never … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual – Families of a different kind
This week’s prompt: write a spooky poem We all have these moments where we don’t quite trust our senses… did I just see a shadow out of the corner of my eyes… why does it smell right now like the vacation in the South when I was a child… did someone just tap me on … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write a ‘bad day’ poem Use a recent example of a day not gone so well. In stanza one recount why this day was/is bad. In stanza two, make light of it, try to see the comical side of that day. Then smile. Happy Writing!
This week’s prompt: found key Say you find an old key, imagine what it would open and reveal to you… an old drawer forever locked, a barn door, a hidden broom cupboard, a wooden box… what treasures and secrets do these places hide? Would you go seek the key whole? If you found it, would … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual – I recognize you anywhere!
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