NaPoWriMo Day 12: For today’s prompt (optional, as always), I’d like to challenge you to write a triolet. These eight-line poems involve repeating lines and a tight rhyme scheme. I love this form of poetry and have written the same earlier too. Sharing my earlier...
NaPoWriMo Day11: Our optional prompt for the day is based on the concept of the language of flowers. Have you ever heard, for example, that yellow roses stand for friendship, white roses for innocence, and red roses for love? Well, there are as many potential meanings...
NaPoWriMo Day 10: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) is another one from the archives, first suggested to us by long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant Vince Gotera. It’s the hay(na)ku). Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince, the hay(na)ku is a variant on...
NaPoWriMo Day 9: The challenge today is to write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in some way the theme of the poem. This might seem like a very modernist idea, but poets have been writing concrete...
NaPoWriMo prompt for day 8 asks us to peruse the work of one or more of these twitter bots, and use a line or two, or a phrase or even a word that stands out, as the seed for our own poem The Sylvia Plath Bot, as you might expect, tweets snippets of...
NaPoWriMo Day 7: Today our prompt (optional, of course) is to write a poem based on a news article. I have chosen to write on the below news, that I found really interesting 🙂 Ring lost in US 47 years ago is found buried in a Finnish forest The lost ring...
NaPoWriMo Day 6: Today’s (optional) prompt is ekphrastic in nature – but rather particular! Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem from the point of view of one person/animal/thing from Hieronymous Bosch’s famous (and famously bizarre) triptych The Garden of...
NaPoWriMo Day 5: The challenge is to use/do all of the following in the same poem. Of course, if you can’t fit all twenty projects into your poem, or a few of them get your poem going, that is just fine too! Begin the poem with a metaphor. Say something specific but...
Our prompt for the day 4 of NaPoWriMo asks us to write a poem based on an image from a dream. Here are the glimpses of my dream 🙂 A fascinating dream Dreams- a manifestation of our sub conscious, Aren’t they? My thoughts, my emotions that design my day...