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This week’s prompt: Learning We are going to write a three-part poem: 1) think about several instances in your childhood where you learned something -> either intellectually or physically, such as reading, writing or swimming, tennis, etc. 2) pick one of these and write a poem about it (part I) 3) now think about instances … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: erasure poem We haven’t done an erasure poem in a long time: pick a newspaper article (newspaper or online (print it if you pick an online article)) or a page in a book you are about to throw out… any piece of existing writing. take a black sharpie and read through the … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual – homeless
This week’s prompt: having the last word In a conflict (any conflict) if you could have the last word, what would it be? Make those last words the title of your poem and then write about it. Happy Writing!
Happy Labor Day!! This week’s prompt: write a poem using the elements and words below… include a particular weather include a color include the texture of a fabric include these words: giraffe, nails, swing, jump, napkin, prickly, scrape, read Happy Writing!
This week’s prompt: write an interlocking rubaiyat, sometimes referred to as rubai. You might be familiar with the 12th-century Persian work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It employs the Rubai. And without possibly noticing it, one of Frost’s well known poems (“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”) executes interlocking rubaiyat perfectly. Here are the rules of the … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: Money Changes Everything If you had double as much money as you have now, what would change for you? If you would inherit or win $10 million dollars, what would then change for you? Would you stop working? Would you start a philanthropic endeavor? Would your life continue as is, knowing you never … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual – Families of a different kind
