writing prompts seven days a week
For the poetry writers.
Your topic is: the ring
Your form is: Pantoum (see form below)
Ex:
Line One
Line Two
Line Three
Line Four
Line Five same as Line Two
Line Six
Line Seven same as Line Four
Line Eight
Line Nine same as Line Six
Line Ten
Line Eleven same as Line Eight
Line Twelve
Line Thirteen same as Line Ten
Line Fourteen
Line Fifteen same as Line Twelve
Line Sixteen
Line Seventeen
Line Eighteen same as Line Three
Line Nineteen
Line Twenty same as Line One
Randomly rip a sheet out of an old magazine (a text page, not an image page) cut it into 20 strips lengthwise and then gather the strips together and cut across thirty times. Put the pieces in a cup. Pull out 15 pieces and lay them in front of you so the text is upright. With a marker quickly circle a word on each piece of paper without giving much thought to their choice.
When you are done write the words on a work sheet (or you can glue or tape them on the page if you like). Write a poem using the words. If a topic doesn’t immediately come to you while you are looking at the words use the topic of “lovebirds”.
If you haven’t attached the pieces to your work sheet then save the pieces and use them again another day.
For the poetry writers.
Your topic is: first meeting
Your form is: free writing
For the poetry writers.
Your topic is: long eyelashes
Your form is: Lune (the English alternative to the Japanese Haiku)
Brief description: 13 syllable (5 / 3 / 5) with no capitals or punctuation. Topic is not limited to nature.
ex:
they are given to
hold close, not
air, not each other
Your topic is: a French maid looking out a window
Your form is: Ballad
Your topic is: a mother’s breast
Your form is: Waltz Wave
Your topic is: her lips
Your form is: Villanelle
Your topic is: bruises
Your form is: Bouts-Rimés
How it works. I give you a list of rhyming words for the end of a specific line in each stanza and you write a coherent poem using the words at the end of each line.
Your topic is: simplicity
Your form is: Tanka — five lines with or without syllable counting
1. short line / 5 syllables
2. long line / 7 syllables
3. short line / 5 syllables
4. long line / 7 syllables
5. long line / 7 syllables
Example:
Is the inlaid box
With a gilt hasp concealing
A letter, a jewel?
Within, a bunch of feathers,
The small bones of a bird.
~ Carolyn Kizer
Your topic is: first dance
Your form is:
The Alphabet –
As you write your poem the
beginning of each line must
correspond with the next letter of the alphabet.
Don’t worry. It’s easier than it sounds. You can have a new sentence for
each line or break up a sentence to get the letter you need. Have
fun with it!
I’ve bolded the first letter of the directions for explanation purposes. You do not need to do so with your poem but you can if you like.
Many have said that they would like to pick the moment of their death whiles others admit they wouldn’t like to know. Today, write a death poem about when it is acceptable in your heart for you to die. Keep in mind as you write, “If I could choose when would it be”. Use the following template to write your death poem:
Death Poem (retitle)
When I have seen…
When I have seen…
When I have seen…When I have seen…
When I have seen…
When I have seen…When I have seen…
(Add a two line summery here)
Your topic: stick figures.
Your form: three Pantoum stanzas.
Your topic: the blood of men.
Your form: three Sapphic stanzas.
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