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For this weeks prompt: write an ‘on the mend’ poem How does it feel to have your partial faculties back, say, after a head cold? Do you focus on the stuff you still cannot do? Or have you gained a new appreciation for the full range of activities we are capable of when not sick? … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write a poem about a tattoo This could be a tattoo you carefully selected for your own body or it could be a tattoo you’ve seen on another person. Tell us the story of the tattoo or why you/the other person got it. Here is the Tattoo poem by Ted Kooser. Happy Writing!
This week’s prompt: write a ghazal The Ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets, between 5 – 15 couplets. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. Happy Writing! Rules Each couplet should be able to stand alone, as … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual prompt
This week’s prompt: ‘Recruited Present’ What does recruited present mean to you? In our discussion at Poetry Between The Lines, we took a closer look at 4 poems by Rae Armantrout. She ended her poem ‘Eyes’ with this phrase “so that things stand / as they stand // in the recruited present.” What have you ‘recruited’ … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: “to the writer of fragments, each fragment is a whole -” This is a quote from the poem ‘Comet Hyakutake’ by Arthur Sze (from the book Compass Rose, Copper Canyon Press). I think poets are writers of fragments. Write a poem that highlights how a fragment can be a whole. Happy Writing!
This week’s prompt: write a 12 line poem use any (or if you dare: all) of these words: club, bill, auto, strangle, lamp, gravel, lake, wire, code, solo, chicken, duck mention 1 body part incorporate a famous name (deceased or living) Happy Writing!
Happy National Poetry Month! Today’s prompt: courtesy of Robert Lee Brewer ‘Poetic Asides’ write a dead end poem Happy Writing!
