ALS NaPoWriMo Day 19: If everything around you seems dark, look again. You maybe the light – Rumi Poem: Walk Alone My Dear! Walk Alone The world around me was enveloped in darkness Though the glitterati of stars shone high above An ounce of light I...
ALS NaPoWriMo Day 2: Introspection is the key to personal growth. No matter how learned we are, or how much we believe in ourselves or our dreams, we feel the need of asking ourselves those pertinent questions about our existence, our relations and our actions....
Today’s prompt comes to us from this list of “all-time favorite writing prompts.” It asks you to name your alter-ego, and then describe him/her in detail. Then write in your alter-ego’s voice. Maybe your alter-ego is a streetwise detective, or a superhero, or a very...
NaPoWriMo Day 3: And now for our (optional) prompt. This one is a bit complex, so I saved it for a Sunday. It’s a Spanish form called a “glosa” – literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a...
The prompt for Day 2 is to write a poem based on a word featured in a tweet from Haggard Hawks, an account devoted to obscure and interesting English words. Will you choose a word like “aprosexia,” which means “an inability to concentrate”? Or maybe something like...
