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Monday Poetry Prompt: Okay, Plath, Wage

This week let’s write a poem with the words okay, Plath and wage 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, like Plath, as in Sylvia. Post your poems in the … Continue reading

Monday Poetry Prompt: Blue

This week let’s write a blue poem. Roses are red, you know what to do.

September Visual Prompt

Horseshoe or “U”?

Monday Poetry Prompt: Abnormal

This week let’s write an abnormal poem. You could write about something that’s abnormal, irregular or even anomalous or your poem itself could be abnormal, maybe a sonnet with 13 lines or a haiku with 18 syllables. Whatever your misfit, post it in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Study, Imagine, Again

This week let’s write a poem with the words study, imagine and again 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.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Meteor

This week let’s write a meteor poem. The Perseid meteor shower is peaking about now so if you’re up past midnight and can find some dark cloudless sky, have a look and you’ll likely see one streak by. Of course, meteors are excellent metaphors for anything brief and brilliant though I’ve never liked the phrase … Continue reading

August Visual Poetry Prompt

I came, I saw, I wrote poetry.

July Musical Prompt

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