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Today we’ll try out a new kind of prompt—11-letter words. Here’s how the prompt works: Use the 11-letter word prompt as the title of your poem Take about 5-10 minutes to write down all the words you can make with it Try to use as many of those words in your poem For our first … Continue reading
This week’s prompt is a visual prompt: Happy Writing! Angelika
This week’s prompt: Write a 10-word poem on an encounter you had this past week with another person. If you feel like it, write multiple poems on different people you met which could then form a mosaic poem of encounters. Happy Writing! Angelika
This week’s prompt is an exercise: write a new poem or rewrite an existing poem for three different audiences, i.e. with one specific type of person in mind 1) an IT professional or accountant, 2) an English professor/teacher and 3) a construction worker. If you would like a prompt, then write a poem about an exchange … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: ‘Far & Near’ Perform a literary zoom on a scene, first describing the scene from some distance and then zooming in and describing details you can only detect when you are close up (or visa versa: first close up and then zoom out). This could be a nature scene (the other side of … Continue reading
For today’s prompt, try writing a kwansaba. A kwansaba is a poetic form invented by Eugene Redmond that contains seven lines of seven words, with each word containing not more than seven letters and is typically a praise poem. Here’s an example by Kenny Fame: KWANSABA: Aunt Sue’s Mess O’ Greens Simmered slowly with a chunk of salt pork, … Continue reading
For today’s prompt, write a poem about winter using words typically associated with summer. Here are a few words you can use to jump start your creativity: heat sunshine barbecue fireworks flip-flops swim July splash tropical bikini butterflies pool Happy writing! Pamela
For today’s poem, write a farewell poem. It can be addressed to anyone or anything – autumn, an old flame, a totaled car, or a fear of flying, just to name a few. Happy writing! Pamela
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