Today’s prompt involved writing ‘about wine-and-love [sic]’. Wine and I don’t get along so well these days, so I decided to go with #11 on the LitBridge list:
Take an image that you can recall from the prior week. Use this image to help you write a poem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Today’s prompt: write a charm – a simple rhyming poem, in the style of a recipe-slash-nursery rhyme.
Today’s prompt: write a poem based on a non-Greco-Roman myth.
Today’s prompt: go to Reb Livingston’s Bibliomancy Oracle. Clear your mind, push the button, and then write a poem based on the quotation that the oracle provides. Continue reading
Today’s writing prompt: Tell us about your first friend.
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Today’s writing prompt: If you could quit one bad habit instantly without difficulty, which would it be? Continue reading
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