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For National Poetry Month, we following the 2015 Poem-a-Day Challenge from Robert Brewer’s Poetic Asides blog. For today’s prompt, take your pick from one of the first 5 prompts or try to use all the words in your poem: Resistance Secret Machine Departure Vegetable Happy writing! Pamela
This week’s prompt: re-write actions or views of a person from the bible, torah, koran… Pick a figure from your guiding book and write a poem about that ‘person’, casting the person’s character or actions or opinions in a different light. A great example is Ansel Elkins’ Autobiography of Eve. Happy Writing! Angelika
This week’s prompt: Forbidden Fruit What is the forbidden fruit in your life? Where has someone else told you ‘you can’t have that’, but you want to, maybe desperately. Is it something life changing or something rather small? You could write an ode to your forbidden fruit. Or you could address the person who is … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: Wanderlust! Write for 15 minutes anything and everything that comes to your mind when you hear the word Wanderlust. It could just be words or it could be entire stories and memories. It could be wishes to travel, locations you have picked. It could be imaginary travel through reading books and making … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write about eating out alone. Which restaurant are you at, Ruth’s Chris, Applebee’s, Joey’s BBQ hole in the wall place…? How do you feel? How do you behave – do you look around, maybe engage in a conversation with the table next to you, or do you read a book or your … Continue reading
Today’s prompt comes from a call for submissions to the Tall Grass Writer’s Guild anthology: Embers and Flames. Your poem could have a direct link to the natural world with literal camp fires, firefighting, bolts of lightning, fireworks, and candles are fine, but don’t overlook emotional, circumstantial, strategic and other metaphoric ‘fires,’ friendly or otherwise: Phoenix rising from ashes; … Continue reading
Today’s visual prompt won 2nd prize in the Portraits category in the 2015 World Press Photo Contest. Happy writing! Pamela
For today’s prompt, write a 14-word poem on the theme of love that reflects hope, kindness, empathy, or inclusion. If you like what you’ve written and want to share it with the world, feel free to submit your poem on the 14 words for love website to spread some love on Valentine’s Day. You have … Continue reading
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