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Monday Poetry Prompt

This week’s prompt: traveling at the speed of your soul After traveling, have you ever felt the need to lie down on the ground and wait for your soul to catch up? It happens to me every time I fly home from Europe. Usually these flights are daytime flights, you leave at noon local time … Continue reading →

Monday Poetry Prompt

This week’s prompt: Write about your Neighborhood Write about what you observe every day … or what stands out the most about your neighborhood… what is special. If you look out a particular window of your home (your bedroom, the kitchen, the patio door…) what do you see? Why do you live there? Do you … Continue reading →

Monday Poetry Prompt

This week’s prompt: Love Made Visible   What does love made visible look like to you? How do you show love? How would you like to be shown that you are loved? If one object or image could encapsulate Love for you, what would it be? Is how you show love different from person to … Continue reading →

Monday Poetry Prompt

October would not be complete without a poem about Halloween. You could write a scary poem, a list poem about all the things you hate about this so-called holiday, or anything you choose. Happy writing!

Monday Poetry Prompt

Today’s prompt is a poetic form called the cento, which is Latin for “patchwork.” This poetic form is made up of lines from poems by other poets. Though poets often borrow lines from other writers and mix them in with their own, a true cento is composed entirely of lines from other sources. You may … Continue reading →

Monday Poetry Prompt

Today’s prompt is ripped from the headlines. Take a story from the past 7 days and use the headline as the title of your poem. Happy writing!

Monday Poetry Prompt

For today’s prompt, write a letter to your younger self. It could be to the person you were in high school, college, or even at the beginning of the year. Happy writing!

Monday Poetry Prompt

This week’s prompt: honor a memento.  Make a list of the things you have kept from a long time ago, maybe a teddy bear or a doll from childhood, maybe you still have your very first fortune cookie snippet in your wallet, maybe you kept something from your first love… Think about why you still have … Continue reading →

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