Prompt for Day 4 by Maureen: Today, let’s try writing triolets. A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetramenter (for a total of eight syllables per line), and the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final...
ALS NaPoWriMo Day 4: Here’s the prompt: It’s the season of spring, and we see colorful flowers blooming everywhere. Our life is also like a garden, experiencing all the seasons from time to time. Write a poem to show us the garden of your life....
As I am following prompts from two communities, here’s the day 3 prompt given by Maureen: Find a shortish poem that you like, and rewrite each line, replacing each word (or as many words as you can) with words that mean the opposite. For example, you might...
The prompt at ALS for Day 3 is as below: The World Outside My Window Everyone sees the world differently. When we are happy, the world outside appears full of glee, but when we are trapped in sadness or pain, we perceive the outside world as unjust, uncertain or even...
NaPoWriMo Day 2: The prompt given by Maureen is as below: And now for today’s (optional) prompt! The Romanian-born poet Paul Celan once wrote a series of surrealist questions and answers. Here are a couple of examples:...
