Today’s prompt is based in a poem by Larry Levis called “The Two Trees.” It is a poem that seems to meander, full of little digressions, odd bits of information, but fundamentally, it is a poem that takes time....
Day 2 prompt is based on this poem by Claire Wahmanholm, which transforms the natural world into an unsettled dream-place. One way it does this is by asking questions – literally. The poem not only contains questions, but ends...
You kill me everyday With words that you don’t say Some words of love and care That I’ve always longed to hear Some words that are a caution That I await before each fall Some words that make me...
Seek Miracles In Life Everyday Smile my dear, smile it away For your smile sways all the pain Your smile renders you humane The gateway to everyone’s heart Is the warmth that smile imparts A...
I am off prompt today due to some urgent personal commitment! But here’s what I could manage to write. Poem: Reincarnation of Love We pursuit love in this whole world We expect love from everyone we love But...
The challenge of NaPoWriMo today is to write an elegy – a poem typically written in honor or memory of someone dead. But we’d like to challenge you to write an elegy that has a hopefulness to it. Here’s...
The challenge of NaPoWriMo today is based in the myth of Narcissus. After reading the myth, try writing a poem that plays with the myth in some way. For example, you could imagine that imagine the water is speaking...
Today the challenge is to write a paragraph that briefly recounts a story, describes the scene outside your window, or even gives directions from your house to the grocery store. Now try erasing words from this paragraph to create...
The challenge of NaPoWriMo today is to write a poem in which something big and something small come together. Here’s what I came up with. I’ll reveal my metaphors for big and small in the end, while I’m sure...
It is the third day of NaPoWriMo and here is today’s prompt. The challenge today is to write a list poem in which all the items are made-up names. If band names don’t inspire, how about a list of...