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For today’s prompt, write a 14-word poem on the theme of love that reflects hope, kindness, empathy, or inclusion. If you like what you’ve written and want to share it with the world, feel free to submit your poem on the 14 words for love website to spread some love on Valentine’s Day. You have … Continue reading
Today we’ll try out a new kind of prompt—11-letter words. Here’s how the prompt works: Use the 11-letter word prompt as the title of your poem Take about 5-10 minutes to write down all the words you can make with it Try to use as many of those words in your poem For our first … Continue reading
This week’s prompt is a visual prompt: Happy Writing! Angelika
This week’s prompt: Write a 10-word poem on an encounter you had this past week with another person. If you feel like it, write multiple poems on different people you met which could then form a mosaic poem of encounters. Happy Writing! Angelika
This week’s prompt is an exercise: write a new poem or rewrite an existing poem for three different audiences, i.e. with one specific type of person in mind 1) an IT professional or accountant, 2) an English professor/teacher and 3) a construction worker. If you would like a prompt, then write a poem about an exchange … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: ‘Far & Near’ Perform a literary zoom on a scene, first describing the scene from some distance and then zooming in and describing details you can only detect when you are close up (or visa versa: first close up and then zoom out). This could be a nature scene (the other side of … Continue reading
For today’s prompt, try writing a kwansaba. A kwansaba is a poetic form invented by Eugene Redmond that contains seven lines of seven words, with each word containing not more than seven letters and is typically a praise poem. Here’s an example by Kenny Fame: KWANSABA: Aunt Sue’s Mess O’ Greens Simmered slowly with a chunk of salt pork, … Continue reading
For today’s prompt, write a poem about winter using words typically associated with summer. Here are a few words you can use to jump start your creativity: heat sunshine barbecue fireworks flip-flops swim July splash tropical bikini butterflies pool Happy writing! Pamela
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