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This week’s prompt: visual – Crab Nebula (Hubble photograph)
This week’s prompt: write a list poem To write a list poem, you could use the following as your inspiration: Titels or first lines or last lines of your favorite poet, or your least favorite poet Song titles of your favorite musician during the course of a day or week, collect advertisement slogans that catch your attention … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write an Ars Poetica poem A poetry teacher of mine once said to his class, poets should only be allowed to write about writing once a year. So let’s get it out of the way: let’s write an ars poetica poem. During the summer I read an unusual, yet intriguing Ars Poetica … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: a cliche – write about how you envision 2017 to pan out … what you want to change… what you hope for… plans you have already made or are still going to make… Since it is a cliche topic, stuff the poem with cliches. Once, do what we are always told not … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: when can you say it if not at Christmas Write a poem about an emotional confession to someone in your life. Describe one of those situations where you would normally not admit to your feelings but because it is Christmas you are going be bold and give the feeling sound. It doesn’t … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write a Rispetto (Italian for Respect) Definition: A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry, is a complete poem of two rhyming quatrains or one 8-line stanza (octave) with meter. The meter is usually iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd or abababcc. A Heroic Rispetto is written in Iambic pentameter, usually … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual
This week’s prompt: write about being flung into the sky If you had someone in your childhood who threw you high up in the air and then catch you again, write about that experience. If you didn’t have such a person, then imagine what it would feel like being flung into the air… being weightless … Continue reading
