NaPoWriMo Day 4: Prompt Poetry

NaPoWriMo Day 4: Prompt Poetry

The prompt for Day 4 is to write a poem in the form of a poetry prompt 🙂 Interesting, isn’t it? The poet Mathias Svalina has been writing surrealist prompt-poems for quite a while, posting them to Instagram. You can find examples here, and here, and here....
NaPoWriMo Day 3: A Mystical Experience

NaPoWriMo Day 3: A Mystical Experience

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...
NaPoWriMo Day 2: A Rendezvous with Self

NaPoWriMo Day 2: A Rendezvous with Self

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...
April- The month of bliss

April- The month of bliss

April is the most awaited month for all the poets across the world as we celebrate National Poetry Writing Month by writing a poem each day to the prompts hosted by various platforms. I’ve surprised myself this time by penning down 63 poems during the last one...