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Monday Poetry Prompt: Frost

Tonight, those of us in North Carolina, USA, are likely to get our first frost of the season and it won’t be just a frost but a hard freeze. So let’s welcome the cold this week by writing a frost poem. Winter’s coming but you still have time to post your poem in the comments … Continue reading

November Visual Poetry Prompt

Post your poem in the comments below before we lose the light.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Halloween

This Friday is All Hallows’ Eve so let’s write a Halloween poem! How could this not be the prompt but I must insist on new work. No reposting old Halloween poems. The blood should still be warm, screams still echoing off toilet-papered trees. Also wanted to let all the Monday Poetry Prompt poets know that … Continue reading

Monday Poetry Prompt: Avoid, Court, Slow

This week let’s write a poem with the words avoid, court and slow 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: Falling in Love

This week let’s write a poem about falling in love. Yesterday the Living Poetry Book Club met to discuss Carol Ann Duffy‘s T. S. Eliot Prize winning collection Rapture. There was something to love in just about every poem but we spent a lot of time on the first one which I’ll link to, You. … Continue reading

October Visual Poetry Prompt

Enjoy tonight’s full moon. Read her the poem you wrote and posted in the comments below.

September Musical Poetry Prompt

For this fifth Monday of September, I’m offering a musical prompt. Have a listen to this twelve minute video, turn the notes into words and post your poem in the comment below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Equinox

In about seven hours, the September equinox occurs so let’s write a poem to celebrate. If you’re in the Southern hemisphere, spring arrives. For those of us in the North, autumn is here. Everyone can write about this moment of balance when days and nights are equal and we’re spinning in the same plane as … Continue reading

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