NaPoWriMo Day 3: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) asks you to make use of our resource for the day. First, make a list of ten words. You can generate this list however you’d like – pull a book off...
Below is the prompt for NaPoWriMo Day 2: Our (optional) prompt for the day takes a leaf from Schuyler’s book, as it were, and asks you to write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or...
NaPoWriMo is finally here! Some light amidst darkness , I must say. So, we are sharpening our pencils, cleaning our notepads and of course oiling our minds 🙂 Here’s the prompt for Day 1 and we were also provided...
The month-long writing marathon comes to end! I’m glad I was able to keep pace with the prompts. It was indeed a great journey of learning and writing discipline. Though it became challenging on certain days to pen down,...
Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that meditates, from a position of tranquility, on an emotion you have felt powerfully. A long wait… I’ve been searching for you, Since my youth- With a...
Today I’d like to challenge you to try your hand at a meta-poem of your own- which are poems about poems. Sculpting poetry Poetry is a science; poetry is an art Poetry is passion; a form of meditation A...
And now for our (optional) prompt. Our video resource for the day promises to teach you everything you need to know to write a Shakespearean sonnet, but I’m not going to ask you to do that, exactly. Instead, I’d...
Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps slightly changing or enlarging it from stanza to stanza, to alter its...
The challenge is to write a poem that: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) Includes a rhetorical question, (like Keats’ “where are the songs of spring?”)...
Today’s (optional) prompt is to write a poem that, like “Dictionary Illustrations,” is inspired by a reference book. Locate a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia, open it at random, and consider the two pages in front of you to be...