Prompts, etc. for today’s OctWriPoMo include: “What do you want?” …your poem might address someone else… yourself … a thing, person, place, or something else entirely. One of the suggested forms is contrapuntal . “In the poetic world, contrapuntal poems are poems that intertwine two (or more) separate poems into a single composition–often by offering…
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Poetry Day 18 — The Tale of the Flipped Script
image link Today’s prompts for OctWriPoMo include: Castles, fairy godmothers, glass slippers, and enchanted roses. When you hear the words “once upon a time” these items might be what it brings to mind. Say those four words aloud and it might make you anticipate something magical, something ethereal, something beyond the ordinary. When was the…
Poetry Day 17 — Trigger
image link Part of today’s prompt for OctWriPoMo is: Does madness rule over me/you/us/them? Does madness fall from the sky in misty dampness, occasional showers, and torrential flooding downpours? Do I/you/we/they hold the reins, controlling the madness? Use your brainstorming to create a poem that expresses your thoughts/feelings around “madness”. Invisible finger on the…
Poetry Day 16 — Catch me when I fall
Today’s poetry prompts for OctWriPoMo includes: Catch Me When I Fall. Finding that person who will support you at every turn is such an important part of any relationship. Also significant is what happens after the fall. How would you describe the balance between giving support and receiving it? I didn’t follow the form prompt…
Poetry Day 15 — Blanket coverage
image link Part of today’s prompt for OctWriPoMo is: What protects you like an umbrella? What shields you? What covers you? Thinking about this briefly, it was clear that there is nothing comparable to the protection outlined in the 23rd Psalm of the Christian Bible. I use it daily and it is the unfailing blanket…
Poetry Day 14 — If I Were Me
Part of the prompts for today’s OctPoWriMo I chose to follow are, “If I Were Me” and a shape poem. It probably won’t show up as a tree on small screens! An oak tree takes hundreds, if not thousands, of years to grow from an acorn and into a mature tree. Nobody questions it….
Poetry Day 13 — Attitude & Price
Today’s offering is in the following form: The Blitz Poem, a poetry form created by Robert Keim. The prompts for today’s OctPoWriMo includes, “If I Were You. Are there things you sometimes need to get off your chest? When was the last time you felt strongly that someone needed to see things from your point…
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