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Poetry Prompt – April 29

April 29 – Pull out the canned goods and other food items from your cabinets and cupboards. (you can always donate your unopened goods to your local food bank when you’re done). Begin by reading the…

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Poetry Prompt – April 28

April 28 – Create  a Blackout poem with the Following:    The Myth of Sisyphus  by Albert Camus     The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a…

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Poetry Prompt – April 27

April 27 – Turn on the radio, or the tv, or any other media, and at your chosen time (could be same minute every hour, or even every day if you want to prolong the fun) count to…

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Poetry Prompt – April 26

April 26 – I don’t remember where I got this prompt but it is a fun one. 1. Select two or more songs from the current top 40 listings. 2. Consult the lyrics of each song (most…

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Poetry Prompt – April 25

April 25 – Another Oulipo prompt: Antonymy: In Oulipian usage, antonymy means the replacement of a designated element by its opposite. Each word is replaced by its opposite, when one exists (black/white) or by…

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Poetry Prompt – April 24

April 24 – Write a poem that starts with one word and ends with the opposite, like truth & lies, or truth & consequences, or winter &summer. You can even make up one,…

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Poetry Prompt – April 23

April 23 – Write an ekphrasis on the sculpture Maman by Louise Bourgeois, 1999.  From the Muse Library: Elegies and Other Poems by Lars Gustafsson. Lars Gustafsson is one of Sweden’s leading and most prolific men of letters; a…

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Poetry Prompt – April 22

April 22 – Write a poem about a snapshot of your family. It could be the perennial Christmas Tree shoot, or a candid of your siblings doing something, or the last snap of…

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Poetry Prompt – April 20

April 20 – Think about secondary characters in stories or novels, even in TV and movies, like Janice on Friends, or Sancho Panza of Don Quixote, or even Natasha or Boris on Bullwinkle. Write a 14-line poem to…

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