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Monday Poetry Prompt: Boxing

This week, let’s write a boxing poem. The poem could be about boxing things up after some event or boxing an opponent in the ring or it could be in celebration of Boxing Day. Whatever the result, post your outside-the-box poem in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Holiday Listicle

This week let’s write a Holiday Listicle poem. If you’ve spent any time on the internet you’ve seen those ads for listicles with catchy titles like “7 Reasons Cats Hate Christmas” or “9 New Years Resolutions to Astound your Friends” or “13 Gift Ideas for a Curmudgeonly Old Poet”. I don’t care if the poem … Continue reading →

December Visual Poetry Prompt

Apologies for the lack of a prompt last week. Didn’t mean to leave you all out in the cold.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Goal

This week let’s write a goal poem. It can be about setting goals, achieving goals or, if you’re like me, you’re interested a specific kind of goal this month. Take your best shot and, in this case, hit the Post (button) to share your GOOOOOOOALLLL in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Condition, Gratitude, Regular

This week let’s write a poem with the words condition, gratitude and regular in it. This is another of those prompts where I (somewhat) 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: River

This week let’s write a river poem. Whether standing on their banks or driving across one on a bridge, you can’t help but feel the metaphors streaming by. Let’s put them to good use before they flow into the sea and post the results in the comments below. Extra credit: include the word fluviology.

November Visual Poetry Prompt

Orange you glad it’s November? Post your poem in the comments below.

Halloween Musical Poetry Prompt

For Halloween let’s be inspired by the fifth movement from Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique then post your own poème fantastique in the comments below.

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