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Monday Poetry Prompt: Crescent Moon

This week let’s write a crescent moon poem. The moon was new on Saturday so, if you have reasonably clear skies at sunset, you should be able to see the crescent thin moon in the western twilight. Let’s get inspired and post a poem in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Office, Reasonable, Up

This week let’s write a poem with the words office, reasonable and up 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: Under the Cushions

A couple of Sundays ago, Living Poetry held a Germination Workshop, hosted by our founder Angelika. In these workshops we present a series of prompts, write for about five minutes to each and then share what we wrote, if we feel so moved. If you’d like to get involved in the next one, we hold … Continue reading

August Visual Poetry Prompt

Got any ideas? Post them in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Vacation

This week let’s write a vacation poem. It’s that time of the year (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere) where we tend to take some time off. Write about a vacation past, present or future. Ideal or disastrous. Family roadtrip or solo adventure. Just don’t forget to post your poem in the comments below … Continue reading

Monday Poetry Prompt: Plan, Go, Consonance

This week let’s write a poem with the words plan, go and consonance 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. (Yes, consonance is one of my favorites.) Post your poems … Continue reading

Monday Poetry Prompt: Relinquish

This week let’s write a relinquishing poem. Sometimes you just have to let it go. Not poetry, of course! But all that other stuff cluttering up your life. Write about relinquishing something and leave it in the comments below.

July Visual Poetry Prompt

Hope you can catch whatever flutters by and post it in the comments below.

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