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This week’s prompt: having the last word In a conflict (any conflict) if you could have the last word, what would it be? Make those last words the title of your poem and then write about it. Happy Writing!
Happy Labor Day!! This week’s prompt: write a poem using the elements and words below… include a particular weather include a color include the texture of a fabric include these words: giraffe, nails, swing, jump, napkin, prickly, scrape, read Happy Writing!
This week’s prompt: write an interlocking rubaiyat, sometimes referred to as rubai. You might be familiar with the 12th-century Persian work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It employs the Rubai. And without possibly noticing it, one of Frost’s well known poems (“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”) executes interlocking rubaiyat perfectly. Here are the rules of the … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: Money Changes Everything If you had double as much money as you have now, what would change for you? If you would inherit or win $10 million dollars, what would then change for you? Would you stop working? Would you start a philanthropic endeavor? Would your life continue as is, knowing you never … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual – Families of a different kind
This week’s prompt: write a spooky poem We all have these moments where we don’t quite trust our senses… did I just see a shadow out of the corner of my eyes… why does it smell right now like the vacation in the South when I was a child… did someone just tap me on … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write a ‘bad day’ poem Use a recent example of a day not gone so well. In stanza one recount why this day was/is bad. In stanza two, make light of it, try to see the comical side of that day. Then smile. Happy Writing!
This week’s prompt: found key Say you find an old key, imagine what it would open and reveal to you… an old drawer forever locked, a barn door, a hidden broom cupboard, a wooden box… what treasures and secrets do these places hide? Would you go seek the key whole? If you found it, would … Continue reading
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