Yay! Finally we have reached the end of the journey with pride, elation, learning and growth! Thanks to Maureen for this stupendous journey. The challenge today is to write a poem that engages with a strange and fascinating fact. It could be an odd piece of history,...
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 do we ever take a peek inside us Do we ever think of...
The challenge of NaPoWriMo today is to draft a prose poem in the form/style of a postcard. I’ve written a post card poem in the form of a letter to my younger self. Something that has been on my mind for quite some time 🙂 Post card Poem: A Letter to my...
NaPoWriMo challenge for today is to pick any tarot card and then to write a poem inspired either by the card or by the images or ideas that are associated with it. I have chosen the card of “The Magician” and came up with the following poem taking a cue from its...
The challenge today is to write a poem that includes images that engage all five senses. Try to be as concrete and exact as possible with the “feel” of what the poem invites the reader to see, smell, touch, taste and hear. Today is a special day for our family as we...
Today, challenge given by NaPoWriMo is to write a poem that takes the form of a warning label . . . for yourself! Here are my warnings! Poem: My assertions I must remain committed To my early morning regime To ensure my morning walks And to fit yoga in...
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 my submission: Poem: My Elegy For You Dismayed by...
And now for today’s (optional) prompt! Kate Greenstreet’s poetry is spare, but gives a very palpable sense of being spoken aloud – it reads like spoken language sounds. In our interview with her, she underscores this, stating that “when you hear it, you write it...
The challenge today is to take one of the following statements of something impossible, and then write a poem in which the impossible thing happens: The sun can’t rise in the west. A circle can’t have corners. Pigs can’t fly. The clock can’t strike thirteen. The stars...