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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #25 (April 25, 2014)

2014/04/25 — Leave a comment

Today’s entry combines prompts from PoeWar:

Write a poem that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.

Writer’s Digest:

[W]rite a ‘last straw’ poem.

and NaPoWriMo.net:

[W]rite a poem that uses anaphora.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #24 (April 24, 2014)

2014/04/24 — 1 Comment

Today’s entry combines prompts from Kelli Russell Agodon‘s list:

Write a poem that has the word ‘love’ in it somewhere. You cannot use the word ‘love’ by itself; it must be hidden (such as in the word ‘glove’, or in two words, like ‘halo venom’.

PoeWar:

Write a poem that begins with the word ‘I‘. [Never a problem for me, it seems]

and NaPoWriMo.net:

[W]rite a poem that features walls, bricks, stones, arches, or the like.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #23 (April 23, 2014)

2014/04/23

Today’s prompt is from Kelli Russell Agodon’s list:

Write a poem where the last word of the first line begins with the first letter of your name, and the last word of the second line begins with the second letter of your name [—] until you have spelled out your first name and/or last name.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #22 (April 22, 2014)

2014/04/22 — Leave a comment

Today’s entry combines a prompt from Kelli Russell Agodon‘s list:

Write a poem that only has five syllables in each line. Give the poem a long title.

with a prompt from PoeWar‘s list:

Write a poem in which a similar or identical phrase is repeated three or more times throughout the poem.

 

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