Poetry prompts, Day 25-30.

Day 25: The World's Forgotten Beauty
Day 26: It Is Not Easy
Day 27:Write a list of distractions, and go from there.
Day 28: You are here, but where would you rather be?
Day 29: Someone left Something on your porch. You didn't see
it at first. Then, you did.
Day 30: Who knows about the Odds?

Hope these prompts triggered some surprises for you!

Happy Spring!
 

Poetry Prompts Day 17-24

Day 17:  You're on your own.
Day 18: Lost and Found poem. Where did I put _____?
Day 19: Begging the Question: Create a poem using "Because" as the first word for each end-stopped line. 
Day 20: The Parting
Day 21: Keep Moving
Day 22: What is Gentle?
Day 23: Earth Day: No One Observed It.
Day 24: Ode to an Insect.

Waiting for Spring. Photo K.Iuppa

 
 

Poetry Prompts: Day14-16

Poetry Prompt: Day 14
Focus on Nothing.

Poetry Prompt Day 15
When____ was still in style.

Poetry Prompt Day 16

Enormous Vowels!
Let this poem sing . . .

Poetry Prompt: Day 13

Poetry Prompt Day 13: Write 5 Haiku, using ideas and images from your day.

photo K. Iuppa. Tomatoes from MJ's garden. Yum.

Poetry Prompts Day 10-12

Poetry Prompt Day 10: Write a Triolet, using an adage. Look up adages and pick your favorite one.
Triolet:
1st line is repeated in the fourth and seventh line;
2nd line is repeated in the final line;
and only the first two end words are used to complete the tight rhyme scheme. Only 5 original lines, giving the triolet an ABaAabAB form. Captial letters indicate repeated lines. (Marna Rossi and Celeste Helene Schantz) I have been having fun with this form. Celeste Helene Schantz presented it in JP's meeting in March 2018. Prior to that workshop, I had written one Triolet. Enjoy.

Poetry Prompt Day 11: Go into a room (messy or neat) write a poem that catalogues what's in the room. This could be a self-portrait or portrait of someone you love.

Poetry Prompt Day 12: Confetti. Freeze frame a celebration. What does it mean to you?

Poetry Prompt Day 9

Poetry Prompt: Day 9
Another poem of "locomotion" or "keep moving" poem Take us on a trip (car, bus, bike, train, jet)to the country, mountains, desert, or city or small town. Pay attention to the way the "road" changes from your starting point to end point. What happens to the landscape. Incorporate color and sound.

Poetry Prompt Day 7 & 8

Poetry Prompt Day 7: Theme: Transient Places.

photo K. Iuppa

 

Poetry Prompt Day 8: _________ Streets, ______Sidewalks
Fill in the blank.  This can be a title or first line or honky-tonk.

 

Poetry prompt: Day 6

Poetry Prompt: Day 6
Small World poem. 4-6 lines in that sparkle with linguistic
invention, describe:
1. a rundown house.
2. an old table, desk, bicycle, car or truck.
3. a particular potted plant.
4. someone working in a kitchen or garden.
5 a small incident seen in the street or in a store.

Poetry Prompt: Day 5

Flower Power!

Poetry Prompt: Day 5
One sentence poem:
 That shade of _______________.

Poetry Prompt: Day 4

Poetry Prompt: Day 4. Look around you. Randomly pick 5 objects that are within your reach. Write a memory-based poem using these objects. Any form, any length.

 photo: K. Iuppa

Poetry Month Prompt: Day 3

photo: K Iuppa

Poetry Prompt Day3: Using a photo or your imagination describe a subtle change in a solitary landscape. In this subtle change reveal your wish for the future. Any form, any length.

Prompt # 30: Not Wanting

Write a list poem about all the things you do not want. 
Allow the list to travel, from the ordinary to the sublime.
Write one thing that you want to end the poem.

Prompt#29: Something old, new, borrowed, blue.

Write the poem that includes: something old, new, borrowed, blue.  Poem cannot be about marriage unless it's a Chagall marriage.

Prompt#28: Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Talk no Evil.

How does one dispel negativity?  Write this poem as an evocation.
Begin each line with the word: Let

Prompt #27: Go for a Walk

Go for a walk.  Pick up three things while your are out.  It could be a shell, or stone or feather, or
fallen bird nest, or wild flower. Or  it could be a walk in town and you pick up a map, a menu, a travel brochure.

Write your poem. Think of where you are and where your found objects have been.  Their age? Their endurance?  Their mystery?  And you?  What about you?

Prompt #26: Chores

Compare a domestic activity to a particular emotion.

Such as washing dishes to mercy, or vacuuming to boredom.

This will be an extended metaphor poem.

Brainstorm all the characteristics of the chore.  Think of good and not-so-good characteristics. Everything has good and not-so-good characteristics.  You want both because without both the poem will be lopsided.

Write your poem, either free verse or in a form of your choice.

Prompt #25: Hidden words

Make a list words that contains other words.

Example: Sparrows    has arrows.   Turn   has urn.     Core    has Ore.

Make a list and write a poem using your favorite ones.

Prompt #24: Small World Poem

Here are your categories: Under each category, write your first response:
Here's my example.

Bird                       Flower                   Color           Emotion        Action verb
Sparrow                  Lilacs                     Yellow            Joy                 Switch


Using these words and any other so your poem makes sense, write a small world poem.
No longer than six lines.

Prompt #23: Say What?

Write a list of expressions and/or adages.

 Example:

 "I always know when to stop"

"Get out of my way, I'm in a hurry"

"I didn't see you standing there"

" That's how the cookie crumble"

 
Pick your favorite one and have it show up in your poem.
 

Prompt #22: Shoes

Take a good look at your shoes, create a poem naming all the places you've been with your shoes.
Consider using the Ghazal form.


Here's an example of a Ghazal:

A Ghazal called Desire

Dreamy, the tank swirls with this tale’s airy surface.

Along the glass, catfish whiskers skim the surface.

Water churned on the bubbles, blew

perfect O’s to her lips kissing the hushed surface.

Love began like this, long ago, in a pond

where she swam against its smooth surface.                          

Stones and mud grazed belly to bare belly,

hidden from those who looked below the surface.                                       

Staring at the tank’s natural light, she wants to dive

again, and break this hour’s surface.

She gazes beyond glass, and sees her sleek body

shadowing the catfish’s slippery surface.

M.J.Iuppa

This was first published on Ghazal.  Thanks, Gene Doty!

Notice the couplets have to be discrete (stand on their own as well as work together in poem)
Ist stanza has the repeat word at the end of its lines.  After 1st stanza, it's always the second line of each couplet that has the repeat word.


So the repeat word would be "shoes" for this challenge, or whatever you want to do.

 Could be boots, flip-flops, sandals, barefoot and so on.