Poetry Wednesdays Writing Prompt
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise.
Your topic is: sugar cubes and broken tea cups.
Your form is: sedoka.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: a middle aged interracial couple in love. Your form is: a triolet.
Pick an emotion (i.e. joy). Use each letter to start off a new stanza. In each stanza refer to something that gives you that emotion. Each stanza can be as many lines as you like but more than one. Add a single line on the end and use the emotion word within it. Pull your…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: If Pandora’s Box contained crime, poverty, pain, hunger, sickness, vice create another box with contains the opposite. Your form is: Do a quick list of opposites to the items in Pandora’s box. Each…
Your topic: wet noses. Your form: haiku.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: places that you have been Your form is: A list. Not just any list. They must relate in some way other than the obvious (the topic I’ve given you pretty much relates but see if you can find another relation as you write) and the list must be…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: garters and pearls. Your form is: Free write for fifteen minutes about the topic and then go through and pick out especially good sentences (or phrases) and make them into a seven line…