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For today’s prompt, try your hand at one of those infamous fill-in-the-blank prompts from the Poetic Asides Poem-a-Day Challenge: How <Blank>. These prompts are fun to do because you can let your imagination run wild! Happy writing! Pamela
For National Poetry Month, we following the 2015 Poem-a-Day Challenge from Robert Brewer’s Poetic Asides blog. For today’s prompt, take your pick from one of the first 5 prompts or try to use all the words in your poem: Resistance Secret Machine Departure Vegetable Happy writing! Pamela
Today’s prompt comes from a call for submissions to the Tall Grass Writer’s Guild anthology: Embers and Flames. Your poem could have a direct link to the natural world with literal camp fires, firefighting, bolts of lightning, fireworks, and candles are fine, but don’t overlook emotional, circumstantial, strategic and other metaphoric ‘fires,’ friendly or otherwise: Phoenix rising from ashes; … Continue reading
Today’s visual prompt won 2nd prize in the Portraits category in the 2015 World Press Photo Contest. Happy writing! Pamela
For today’s prompt, write a 14-word poem on the theme of love that reflects hope, kindness, empathy, or inclusion. If you like what you’ve written and want to share it with the world, feel free to submit your poem on the 14 words for love website to spread some love on Valentine’s Day. You have … Continue reading
Today we’ll try out a new kind of prompt—11-letter words. Here’s how the prompt works: Use the 11-letter word prompt as the title of your poem Take about 5-10 minutes to write down all the words you can make with it Try to use as many of those words in your poem For our first … Continue reading
For today’s prompt, try writing a kwansaba. A kwansaba is a poetic form invented by Eugene Redmond that contains seven lines of seven words, with each word containing not more than seven letters and is typically a praise poem. Here’s an example by Kenny Fame: KWANSABA: Aunt Sue’s Mess O’ Greens Simmered slowly with a chunk of salt pork, … Continue reading
For today’s prompt, write a poem about winter using words typically associated with summer. Here are a few words you can use to jump start your creativity: heat sunshine barbecue fireworks flip-flops swim July splash tropical bikini butterflies pool Happy writing! Pamela
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