Last one for this series! Hope these helped get your creative juices flowing! #19 Matchsticks fallen on the floor, a fire waiting to erupt
Month / August 2018
August Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #18
#18 Photo collage, a sea of smiling faces, yet yours sits adrift
August Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #17
In honor of Labor Day weekending coming upon us, write about the term “labor.” Interpret it any which way you prefer.
August Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #16
#16 is a creativity exercise. Grab the nearest book and open it to random page. Find the first full paragraph on the left side. Cross out every other word. With the remaining uncrossed words, write a poem using those words.
Mine is an undergraduate catalog. Oh, how to use the word “forensic!”
August Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #15
#15 Spilled water glass, raindrops dripping on patio brick…
August Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #14
#14 Red ink circled the word on the opened book page…
August Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #13
#13 Grass smear on sidewalk, the roughness of skin
August Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #12
#12 Words escaped without a sound, but the passion wore on..
August Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #11
#11 Gold flecks swimming in the mist as her body moved away…
August Poetry Boot Camp Prompt #10
Prompt #10: A child’s whisper, the sound of broken glass
J.L. Smith 