Today’s Prompt: We always bent the edges of the cards, like ears of a rabbit, like they perked back in fear…
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National Poetry Writing Month Prompt #7
natiToday’s prompt:
While we waited for the tsunami to reach the shore…
National Poetry Month Prompt #4
#4 is an image prompt: the wedding set separated on the white sink
National Poetry Month Prompt #3
#3 We thought the weeds in the garden were beautiful.
National Poetry Month Prompt #1
Welcome to National Poetry Month! In honor of this special month, I will be posting daily prompts to help inspire all of us to create more poetry this month! Get writing! Get that inspiration.
Prompt #1 (Image or phrase) Candle under water
June PoWriMo Day 30/Prompt #30
Raw excerpt for the day:
I found God
or at least, I found
Buddha in the least
likely places…
Prompt for the day:
Write about regret. Think of something you regret. Something you did or didn’t do.
Start it out like this: I regret that….
June PoWriMo Prompts 28/29
These two prompts deal with the senses.
Prompt #28: Think of an object in your hand, be it water, chemical, or a solid object. What does it feel like? What sensation does it give to you? How does it make you feel. Write about it.
Prompt #29: Think of sound. Maybe it is a person’s voice, a song, a bird’s cry. Write about that sound and its affect on you.
June PoWriMo Prompt #27
Prompt for the day:
Rocks, yes rocks. They can be made of any material. Volcanic rock like basalt or obsidian. Or even sedimentary. I once carried two pounds of a foreign country in a box of rocks.
Prompt of the day: what rocks do you carry? What are they made of and what do they mean to you?
June PoWriMo Prompt #26
Today is all about trends. We are all guilty of falling victim to a trend or two, especially in our younger days. If nothing else, our old pictures remind us of the fashionable choices we made that we should have avoided.
For me, it has to be apple pectin perms to make my impossibly thick hair curly, which made into a human poodle. Ha, need I say more? 😉
Prompt – think back to a trend that you followed. Why did you do it? Regret it much? Embarrassed much? Or do you own it? Write about it.
June PoWriMo Prompts #23 & #24
Prompts for the 23rd and 24th.
#23 Pick a language. Doesn’t matter which one.Just don’t use English. Pick a word from that language. Why did you pick that word? What does it mean? Try using it in a narrative, but not one of its native origin. (For instance, from French “chaine.” A word often used in dance, this word means to turn rapidly in a straight line. Do not use it in this context, but in a different way.)
#24 This is a take on the erasure poem. Grab a news article off the internet. Copy and paste it into Word (or another word processor). Randomly throughout the article, select a word or phrase that interests you. Select about 10, then erase everything around these selected words. What do you have left? Scramble them. What can you make out of these words? What do these words inspire?
J.L. Smith 