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Monday Poetry Prompt

Today’s poetry prompt is a mash-up of different prompts I’ve seen this week: Write about a family member without using their name Mention something about their hands Use the words visit, plant & gone Happy writing!

Monday Poetry Prompt

Today’s prompt is to write a dodoitsu. This Japanese poetic form consists of four lines with the syllabic structure 7-7-7-5 and no rhyme, often concerns love or work, and are usually comical. Here’s my attempt: surrounded by men all day in suits or construction hats tossing pleasantries like lures but I never bite These poems … Continue reading

Monday Poetry Prompt

This week’s prompt is a question from Neruda’s The Book of Questions: choose one of the two questions and write a poem either in response to the question or contemplating the question. 1) How did the abandoned bicycle win its freedom? 2) Who shouted with glee when the color blue was born? Also, put a specific … Continue reading

Monday Poetry Prompt

For this week: a visual prompt -> surreal photography by Rene Asmussen

Monday Poetry Prompt

For this week’s prompt: start your poem with “Secretly,” (not as the title, but the poem itself) Use some or all of the following words in your poem: fog, red, roof, hounded, pray, sand, glisten Happy Writing!

Monday Poetry Prompt

For this week’s prompt: write a poem inspired by the phrase ‘it’s a simple dish’. This phrase could be the title. Or it could be part of the poem or not show up there at all. The poem could be about a dish or use the dish as a metaphor for something life is dishing … Continue reading

Monday Poetry Prompt

Today’s prompt comes from the Creative Writing Prompts on the Poets and Writers website: Write a poem using a recent dream as inspiration. Draw from the fantastical, nonsensical images your brain conjured up, and the logic that seems to make sense only inside your dreaming mind. If you don’t remember your dreams, you can write … Continue reading

Monday Poetry Prompt

Today, we have a visual prompt Mattress Prepared for Delivery (1944) from the State Library and Archives of Florida that appeared on the website, Easy Street Prompts. Happy writing! Pamela

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