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Happy New Year? Post your poem in the comments below.
On this fifth Monday of December and the final Monday of 2025, here’s a musical prompt for your poetry. Have a listen to this five minute waltz as the year ends and let the words dance. I’m eager to read what you hear in the comments below.
This week let’s write a chimney poem. Hang your best metaphors and similes with care in the hopes that some readers soon will be there. Then post your poem, covered with ashes and snow, right there, down in the comments below.
This week let’s write a poem with the words candle, religion and sit in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.
This week let’s write a ache poem. Let’s get visceral. We’ve all experienced aches before. Maybe we’re aching right now. Write about it! Really get into the sensation, show us the ache, make us feel it too. For bonus points, make it a metaphor for something. I’m aching to see some poetry posted in the … Continue reading
Hope this ignites some inspiration and you’ll post your poem in the comments below.
This week let’s write a feast poem. The Thanksgiving holiday is on Thursday this week here in the States so there’ll be plenty of people feasting and, sadly, way too many who can’t. But we can still feast on poetry and you can make me thankful I offered this prompt by posting your poem in … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words feel, less and word in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below. (BTW, the image … Continue reading
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