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Today’s prompt is to write a dodoitsu. This Japanese poetic form consists of four lines with the syllabic structure 7-7-7-5 and no rhyme, often concerns love or work, and are usually comical. Here’s my attempt: surrounded by men all day in suits or construction hats tossing pleasantries like lures but I never bite These poems … Continue reading
This week’s prompt is a question from Neruda’s The Book of Questions: choose one of the two questions and write a poem either in response to the question or contemplating the question. 1) How did the abandoned bicycle win its freedom? 2) Who shouted with glee when the color blue was born? Also, put a specific … Continue reading
For this week: a visual prompt -> surreal photography by Rene Asmussen
For this week’s prompt: start your poem with “Secretly,” (not as the title, but the poem itself) Use some or all of the following words in your poem: fog, red, roof, hounded, pray, sand, glisten Happy Writing!
For this week’s prompt: write a poem inspired by the phrase ‘it’s a simple dish’. This phrase could be the title. Or it could be part of the poem or not show up there at all. The poem could be about a dish or use the dish as a metaphor for something life is dishing … Continue reading
Today’s prompt comes from the Creative Writing Prompts on the Poets and Writers website: Write a poem using a recent dream as inspiration. Draw from the fantastical, nonsensical images your brain conjured up, and the logic that seems to make sense only inside your dreaming mind. If you don’t remember your dreams, you can write … Continue reading
Today, we have a visual prompt Mattress Prepared for Delivery (1944) from the State Library and Archives of Florida that appeared on the website, Easy Street Prompts. Happy writing! Pamela
For today’s prompt, write a poem that uses the line It went down like this. The line could be your first line, last line, or anywhere in your poem. Your poem could describe a situation as it really happened, how the speaker wishes it would happen, or be the story that didn’t happen the way … Continue reading
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