October Visual Poetry Prompt | Living Poetry
Enjoy tonight’s full moon. Read her the poem you wrote and posted in the comments below.| Living Poetry
This week let’s write a poem with the words avoid, court and slow in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.| Living Poetry
This week let’s write a poem about falling in love. Yesterday the Living Poetry Book Club met to discuss Carol Ann Duffy‘s T. S. Eliot Prize winning collection Rapture. There was something to love in just about every poem but we spent a lot of time on the first one which I’ll link to, You. … Continue reading →| Living Poetry
Enjoy tonight’s full moon. Read her the poem you wrote and posted in the comments below.| Living Poetry
For this fifth Monday of September, I’m offering a musical prompt. Have a listen to this twelve minute video, turn the notes into words and post your poem in the comment below.| Living Poetry
In about seven hours, the September equinox occurs so let’s write a poem to celebrate. If you’re in the Southern hemisphere, spring arrives. For those of us in the North, autumn is here…| Living Poetry
Got any ideas? Post them in the comments below.| Living Poetry
Here’s your April Visual Prompt a day early! This will be the only post for National Poetry Month. Feel free to use the American Academy of Poets poster for the month as a prompt. Many of us …| Living Poetry
This week let’s write a disappointment poem. Describe how you were disappointed or how you disappointed someone else but don’t disappoint me, post your poem in the comments below.| Living Poetry
This week let’s write a stubborn poem. It can be about someone who is stubborn or a stubborn situation or one of those poems that just refuses to be written. Whichever you choose, don’t…| Living Poetry
This week let’s write a poem with the words happy, leprechaun and morning in it. This is another of those prompts where I (almost) randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in t…| Living Poetry
Don’t take this prompt lying down. Post your poem in the comments below.| Living Poetry
For this fifth Monday in July, let’s write a poem to a little music. Listen to this four and half minute piano piece. Don’t look it up or research the composer and try not to even be in…| Living Poetry
This week let’s write a green poem without using the word “green”. That color has come to represent a lot in our language so let’s play with that. It’s not easy but po…| Living Poetry
It’s been over a year since I last challenged you with a musical prompt and, since Mozart’s birthday was this past weekend, I’d like you to listen to this 82 second clip of a famo…| Living Poetry
This week let’s write a poem with the words below, side and true in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English languag…| Living Poetry
This week let’s write a majority poem. I rolled the dice and got this word which is prescient given that 2024 will be an election year in the United States, where Living Poetry primarily oper…| Living Poetry
