Today I picked a prompt from PoeWar: “Write a poem that repeatedly uses numbers.”
PoeWar
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #26 (April 26, 2014)
Today’s entry inadvertently combines prompts from PoeWar:
Write a poem about a natural event.
[W]rite a water poem.
and NaPoWriMo.net:
…give the curtal sonnet a whirl.
Earlier, the prompt explains:
…the curtal sonnet is shorter than the normal, fourteen-line sonnet. Instead, it has a first stanza of six lines, followed by a second stanza of four, and then closes with a half-line.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #25 (April 25, 2014)
Today’s entry combines prompts from PoeWar:
Write a poem that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.
[W]rite a ‘last straw’ poem.
and NaPoWriMo.net:
[W]rite a poem that uses anaphora.
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 #20 (April 20, 2014)
Family poems seem to be all the rage among poetry prompts today; both NaPoWrimo.net and Writer’s Digest suggest writing a ‘family poem’ for today’s prompt. (Okay, that’s only two. Still…)
Number 20 on LitBridge’s list of prompts involves imagining ‘living 300 or more years ago’, with ‘the same personality and body’. (Yeah, I can’t see myself in the 18th century.)
Kelli Russell Agodon’s prompt for day 20 suggests removing my shoes and writing a poem celebrating my feet. (I hate my feet.)
Once again, PoeWar comes to the rescue. The twentieth prompt on the list is:
Write a poem that begins with a line of advice or instruction, such as don’t give up or take a left at the willow tree.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #19 (April 19, 2014)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt is kind of a long one, so I’ll condense and paraphrase:
[W]rite a poem using one or more of the sea shell names listed.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #17 (April 17, 2014)
Today’s prompt comes from PoeWar.com:
Write a poem that is set at or near where you live.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #15 (April 15, 2014)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt was giving me fits. The ottava rima that was last year’s Day 8 prompt worked out well, as it coincided with news of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. For some reason, though, attempting a terza rima just had me encountering trite sentences and dead-end rhymes.
So, I decided to switch tack, and go with the 15th item on the list of prompts at PoeWar:
Write a tanka. Feel free to write more than one if you like.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #13 (April 13, 2014)
Today’s prompt comes from the Poetry Prompts page at PoeWar.com: Write a poem using Skeltonic Verse.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 