No prompt today. Instead, a combination of a conversation with a friend and the Japanese drama (Long Vacation) I’ve been watching the last couple of days..
reflection
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Find an unpublished poem that you haven’t looked at in years.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.
This Day
This day
I let my truth be known
I let my voice speak through my fears
I let my heart be revealed
I let the full warmth of you into my life
I let this happen
I let the happiness in
I let it be
I let this be
I let us be
(20 August 2013)
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #9 (April 9, 2013)
Today’s prompt: a poem inspired by noir. I’m not so impressed with the result, but I’ll leave that for the reader to judge… Continue reading
Exclusion
We’ve become an exclusive bunch. Instead of inviting what we want in, we put the majority of our effort into keeping what we don’t want out. Instead of taking the bad with the good (I don’t know why the actual saying has the two reversed), we throw out both so we don’t have to worry about either one. Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 