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.
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On the death of Saejima Nao (a poem)
Saejima Nao (冴島奈緒) was a model, actress, and adult-video star who rose to prominence in the late eighties, around the time that I moved to Tokyo. Continue reading
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 #10 (April 10, 2014)
Today’s prompt is #50 on LitBridge’s Creative Writing Prompts for Poetry:
Look at the last 10 poems you have written. Pay attention to the ending lines. Use one of those ending lines to begin a new poem.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #8 (April 8, 2014)
Today’s prompt: was to re-write a famous poem, ‘giving it our own spin.’ Not being particularly familiar with ‘famous’ poetry—I rarely read poetry, actually—I gravitated towards song lyrics, selecting David Sylvian’s lyrics to the song ‘Ghosts’, from Japan’s Tin Drum album. But then I decided that I really couldn’t do that to David Sylvian, so I looked for a few other prompts. I went with one of LitBridge’s Creative Writing Prompts for Poetry—number nine, to be specific:
Find an unpublished poem that you haven’t looked at in years. Randomly choose three lines from the poem. Write a completely different [poem] using those lines.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #7 (April 7, 2014)
Today’s prompt: I didn’t like today’s prompt. Actually, I didn’t like any of the prompts I encountered today, until I got to the Writer’s Digest site, and the prompt for Day 7 of their PAD Challenge: write a self-portrait 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.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #5 (April 5, 2014)
Today’s prompt: write a ‘golden shovel’…The last word of each line from [Terrance] Hayes’ poem [The Golden Shovel] is a word from Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem We Real Cool.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #4 (April 4, 2014)
Today’s prompt: write a lune…the version developed by Jack Collum. His version of the lune involves a three-line stanza. The first line has three words. The second line has five, and the third line has three.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #3 (April 3, 2014)
Today’s prompt: write a charm – a simple rhyming poem, in the style of a recipe-slash-nursery rhyme.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 