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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
For today’s prompt, write a landay. Landays are 22-syllable couplets, generally rhyming, with 9 syllables in the first line and 13 syllables in the second line. The form is from Afghanistan, typically sung by women as folk songs. You can try writing a single landay or string a few together for your poem. Happy writing! … Continue reading
For this week’s prompt: write about taking a detour This could be a traditional detour on the road -> from highway to scenic route; from regular road to being lost in a field; from being on your road trip to having to stop by an aunt’s or cousin’s house because you are in the “neighborhood”. … Continue reading
