The May 11th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to “pretend you can see into the future.”
Kelli Russell Agodon
My first (a poem)
The May 10th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, involves making a list of “firsts”, then writing a poem about one or more of them.
A poem not about racehorses
The May 7th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, involves making a list of racehorse names, then incorporating them in a poem that is about anything other than racehorses.
Large Subject, Small Poem
The May 6th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, involves making a list of five huge things (concrete or abstract), then writing a poem of four lines or less about it.
Drifting (a poem)
If the last two years of National Poetry Writing Month have taught me anything, it’s that I’m more likely to write something if I have some kind of prompt to work from. Otherwise, I write only when I feel like it, or when a noteworthy phrase pops into my thoughts. So, I borrowed The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, from the Kindle Owners Lending Library on Amazon.
The prompt for May 4 involves making a list of rules about writing poetry—either ones you’ve been taught, or ones that you’ve come up with yourself—then writing a poem that breaks at least four of them. Since there aren’t any rules I can think of (I certainly don’t have such a list anywhere), I did a Google search, and worked against the Poetry Writing Tips at YourDictionary. (The line about sex acts comes from the Useless Facts web site.)
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #24 (April 24, 2014)
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’.
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.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #23 (April 23, 2014)
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.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #22 (April 22, 2014)
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.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #6 (April 6, 2014)
Today’s prompt: I didn’t like today’s prompt, so I went in search of another one. I decided to go with the sixth prompt listed in Kelli Russell Agodon’s 30 Writing Prompts for National Poetry Month: Write a poem in two sections about two completely different things. Have the title link both items in a surprising way.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 