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This week’s prompt: Autumn What stands out about fall to you? Is it the leaf colors? Or is it the dying of the light? Is it the moist cold smell of nature decaying? Or the growing silence as the animals retreat into their winter hide-outs? Is it the last very few warmer days? Or the … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write a poem emphasizing Cacophony Definition: jarring, discordant sound – generally associated with harsh consonants, rather than with vowels. Example: Don Juan, Canton the 7th by Lord Byron “Bombs, drums, guns, bastions, batteries, bayonets, bullets– Hard words, which stick in the soft Muses’ gullets.” Craft used in poetry (and other genre, I … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: “all of life is a story” (after Joseph Campbell) Make up a story (or your own fantastical life-story), give it an arc, a beginning, middle and end; think about a moral for the story. The try it in different poetic forms: prose poem, ballad, epic poem (those allow for longwinded story telling). … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write an acrostic poem Definition: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. If you feel up for a challenge: a double-acrostic employs both the first and the last letters of the lines. Here is an example by Ben Johnson hiding … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: first lines Below is a list of first lines from various poems by Kay Ryan. Pick one and make it your title or your first line and then write a poem. Wherever the eye lingers It takes a courageous It’s a pickle, this life. The moral is Trying to walk It worked … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write a Minute Poem Courtesy of Robert Lee Brewer: Some forms have a long, exotic history. Some forms are relatively new, but have a well-known founder. Others just seem to spring out of nowhere. Such appears to be the case with our most recent poetic form: the minute poem. The rules are … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: rocks Write about river rocks, creek pebbles, ocean boulders, or beach sand. What is special about them… are they prettier when wet? is it amazing how long they sit there unchanged to the human eye while water keeps washing over them? how about their journey, predetermined down the river bed or sand … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual
