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Monday Poetry Prompt: Feast

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 →

Monday Poetry Prompt: Feel, Less, Word

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 →

Monday Poetry Prompt: Frost

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 →

Monday Poetry Prompt: Halloween

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 →

Monday Poetry Prompt: Avoid, Court, Slow

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.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Falling in Love

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 →

Monday Poetry Prompt: Equinox

In about seven hours, the September equinox occurs so let’s write a poem to celebrate. If you’re in the Southern hemisphere, spring arrives. For those of us in the North, autumn is here. Everyone can write about this moment of balance when days and nights are equal and we’re spinning in the same plane as … Continue reading →

Monday Poetry Prompt: Climax, Leg, Quite

This week let’s write a poem with the words climax, leg and quite 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.

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