Posts Tagged ‘Poetry Month 26’

April 30 – Write a poem about the sky in the middle of the day. It is a sky that doesn’t have the drama of a sunrise or sunset but is the one we live…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…