Your topic: mornings with a loved one. Your form: thirteen lines — using a number or referring to a number on each line.
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Tag Archives: writing prompts for poets
Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is visual cues — do not use the words visual cues as you write. Your form is: free write one stanza of five full lines and each line continuing on to the next.
Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: being wound too tight Your form is: three stanzas of three lines each. Each a-line must start with a five letter word. Each b-line must start with an “s” word. Each c-line must use the last word of a-line within it. a b c a b c a [...]
Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: the rhythm of a relationship between a man and woman. Your form is: 7 line stanza — the last word of the preceding line starts the next. Example: In the deep dark ground Ground full of life and death Death of relatives and buddies…etc.
Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: spring’s first bloom. Your form is: use the following letters to start each line. Line One: H Line Two: O Line Three: T Line Four: S Line Five: H Line Six: O Line Seven: T Line Eight: S Line Nine: S Line Ten: T Line Eleven: E Line Twelve: O
Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: razors Your form is: pleiades
Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: dewy mornings Your form is: conversational poem, 3 stanzas, have the person who starts the conversation end it Example: Like Day and Night Did you know it’s been dewy every morning? No, is that a problem? It’s not that it’s a problem. Really, it’s quite beautiful. Ah, the [...]
Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: little girls in pink frills Your form is: Villanelle (see form layout below) Form Layout: Line One Line Two Line Three Line Four Rhymes with Line One Line Five Rhymes with Line Two Line Six Same as Line One Line Seven Rhymes with Line One Line Eight Rhymes [...]
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Poetry Wednesdays
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. [...]
Poetry Wednesdays
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 * reference: Handbook [...]
Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic: the blood of men. Your form: three Sapphic stanzas.
Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: being able to depending on someone. Your form is: etheree
Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is the end of summer (or the beginning of fall). Your form is: carmina figurata Here’s and example, Robert Herrick’s The Pillar of Fame: Fame’s pillar here, at last, we set Out-during marble, brass, or jet, Charm’d and enchanted so As to withstand the blow Of overthrow: Nor shall the seas, Or OUTRAGES [...]
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