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This musical clip is a little longer than I’ve shared before at eleven minutes but I find lots of interesting emotions welling up when I listen. Let’s see what you hear in the comments below.
This week let’s write a garden poem. This subject is ripe with metaphor. Let this prompt be the seed in the fertile soil of your mind then post the harvest in the comments below.
This week let’s write a poem with the words add, kind and maple 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. (Rolling maple a week after the tree prompt was mere … Continue reading
This week let’s write a tree poem. Sure, there are already plenty of tree poems from Kilmer‘s to Frost‘s to Goethe‘s but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing left to write. Trees are simply metaphors with bark and leaves. Post your sapling (or even just an acorn) in the comments below.
Hope everyone had a frank and productive April. Here’s your visual poetry prompt for the merry month of May. Post your poetic response in the comments below.
This week let’s try another musical prompt. Listen to the four-minute musical clip below then write a poem about it. Consider this the audio equivalent of our monthly visual prompts. Post your poem in the comments below or at least tell me if you’d like more of these.
Today is the first full day of Spring for poets in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern. It’s also World Poetry Day so let’s write a new poem for the new season. Don’t wander lonely as a cloud or wait ’til proud-pied April comes babbling like an idiot, strewing flowers as the soft … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words attack, exist and roll 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. I couldn’t come up with a good image for those … Continue reading
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