#3 Overheard at a restaurant. Think back to something you overhead at a restaurant or cafe. You know you couldn’t help but listen too…[fill in the blank]
Month / April 2018
Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #2
Poetry prompt for the day:
#2 Write a poem of regret. Maybe it is a poetic apology. Maybe it was something you did. Or maybe it is something you didn’t do.
Excerpt: Weathered Fragments, Weathered Souls
From “Fog”
Fog rises over the river.
Hands close over headlights,
luring the sleepy back to bed.
Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #1
Welcome to National Poetry Month! To kick off this month’s daily poetry prompts is this one:
#1 T.S Eliot wrote in “The Waste Land” that “April is the cruelest month.” Is it? The month where the death of winter meet the rebirth of spring. Think about this quote and write a response.
Excerpt: Weathered Fragments, Weathered Souls
From “Pests”
Because I knew it would fall victim
to that same mistake again
soon enough
and I would be there to see it die.
J.L. Smith 