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This week’s prompt: write an Alba / Aubade or an Ode An Aubade is a love song sung at dawn. The setting at dawn usually plays a role in the poem. If you are not so much into love songs, pick the Ode, which sings the praise of a person or object, such as Shelley’s … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: bravery, courage Write a poem consisting of an image that expresses courage or bravery to you. If you see courage expressed what does it look like? If you have multiple scenes in your head write a sequence poem. Or write about a time when you had to muster quite a bit of courage. … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: petition to be inconsolable Laure-Anne Bosselaar wrote this wonderful poem by the same title. The speaker just didn’t want to be comforted that day and listed 14 woes. Write down your woes, doesn’t have to be exactly 14. List the little everyday things and the big heartbreaking things that make life a little harder. … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: describe your perfect date … that doesn’t mean everything has to go perfectly… if you were out on a date, today, what has to take place to make you super happy and what are the things that can go wrong and you couldn’t care less about? Try the poem in first person … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: your parents’ slogans Make a list of the phrases your mother and father – or maybe your grandparents – always used on you as a kid. Could be phrases you hated or loved… could be good or bad jokes that came over and over again… anything that had a repetition factor in … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual prompt… enjoy!
This week’s prompt: write about the one thing you never got as a kid that you always wanted… a puppy, to play the piano, a certain bicycle, roller skates, that princess dress or cowboy hat and chaps, tap dancing lessons, a kite, … What ever it was, why did you want it so bad? What … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write an imagist poem The Anglo-American Imagist movement started in the 1910s and favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. Ezra Pound coined the term by submitting three poems by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) to Poetry magazine and calling her an Imagiste. Here are a couple of examples (imagist poem can be longer, I picked short ones to preserve space): In … Continue reading
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