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A couple of Sundays ago, Living Poetry held a Germination Workshop, hosted by our founder Angelika. In these workshops we present a series of prompts, write for about five minutes to each and then share what we wrote, if we feel so moved. If you’d like to get involved in the next one, we hold … Continue reading
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This week let’s write a vacation poem. It’s that time of the year (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere) where we tend to take some time off. Write about a vacation past, present or future. Ideal or disastrous. Family roadtrip or solo adventure. Just don’t forget to post your poem in the comments below … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words plan, go and consonance in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. (Yes, consonance is one of my favorites.) Post your poems … Continue reading
This week let’s write a relinquishing poem. Sometimes you just have to let it go. Not poetry, of course! But all that other stuff cluttering up your life. Write about relinquishing something and leave it in the comments below.
Hope you can catch whatever flutters by and post it in the comments below.
Have a listen to this famously sorrowful piece of classical music and write a poem to it. What kind of sorrow do you hear? Grief? Loneliness? Melancholia? Let us know in the comments below.
Last Friday night was the Summer Solstice for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere and since a lot of us will be dealing with a heat wave this week, let’s write a summer poem. For our Southern Hemisphere poets, write a winter poem. Embrace the cold and dark or recall memories of winters past. … Continue reading
