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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
For today’s poem, write a farewell poem. It can be addressed to anyone or anything – autumn, an old flame, a totaled car, or a fear of flying, just to name a few. Happy writing! Pamela
Here’s a visual prompt to inspire our words today. Thanks to LP member Ron Jackson for posting this fantastic photo by Mike Mezeul II. Happy writing! Pamela
For today’s prompt, use one of the titles of the poetry collections of former poet laureate Mark Strand, who passed away on Saturday. You may use it anywhere in your poem (title, first line, last line, acrostic, etc.). Sleeping with One Eye Open Reasons for Moving Darker The Story of Our Lives The Monument The Late Hour The … Continue reading
