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This week let’s write a poem with the words candle, religion and sit 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. Post your poems in the comments below.
This week let’s write a ache poem. Let’s get visceral. We’ve all experienced aches before. Maybe we’re aching right now. Write about it! Really get into the sensation, show us the ache, make us feel it too. For bonus points, make it a metaphor for something. I’m aching to see some poetry posted in the … Continue reading
This week let’s write a feast poem. The Thanksgiving holiday is on Thursday this week here in the States so there’ll be plenty of people feasting and, sadly, way too many who can’t. But we can still feast on poetry and you can make me thankful I offered this prompt by posting your poem in … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words feel, less and word 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. Post your poems in the comments below. (BTW, the image … Continue reading
Tonight, those of us in North Carolina, USA, are likely to get our first frost of the season and it won’t be just a frost but a hard freeze. So let’s welcome the cold this week by writing a frost poem. Winter’s coming but you still have time to post your poem in the comments … Continue reading
This Friday is All Hallows’ Eve so let’s write a Halloween poem! How could this not be the prompt but I must insist on new work. No reposting old Halloween poems. The blood should still be warm, screams still echoing off toilet-papered trees. Also wanted to let all the Monday Poetry Prompt poets know that … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words avoid, court and slow 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. Post your poems in the comments below.
This week let’s write a poem about falling in love. Yesterday the Living Poetry Book Club met to discuss Carol Ann Duffy‘s T. S. Eliot Prize winning collection Rapture. There was something to love in just about every poem but we spent a lot of time on the first one which I’ll link to, You. … Continue reading
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