Welcome to Poetry Play Thursday!

Today’s poetry prompt is a photo. I hope it will inspire you to write. If it does, I hope you’ll share you poem, or a link to it, here in our comments. We’d love to read what you’ve written! Have fun!

Train Tracks by Peter Griffin

Imitation:  Does it kill originality?

Some people believe that trying to imitate a favorite poet’s work will stifle originality in your own work.  I believe this can certainly happen, but can it also do just the opposite by helping us discover what we truly enjoy about reading and writing poetry  Could those discoveries then [...]

Hello, all!  It seems like forever since I last posted.  I was on hiatus while recovering from an illness but am feeling better and look forward to hanging out with you all again!

I’ll bring you a new prompt next week for Poetry Play Thursday so I hope you’ll stop back and participate.  I love reading [...]

Welcome to Poetry Play Thursday!

Do you enjoy haiku and other short forms of poetry the way I do?  Does your heart beat a little faster when thinking about editing a poem down, cutting here and chopping there until every single word is absolutely essential? Like me, do you sometimes believe that bright, shiny, [...]

Welcome to Poetry Play Thursday!

My recent free time has been all about reading for book challenges, so I threw a few book titles together and created another Wordle for today’s poetry prompt.  Let’s see what you can create from one or more (or all) of these words:

Just click on the box [...]

Welcome to Poetry Play Thursday!

In this day of lightning speed technology, we zip emails off here and there, transmitting our thoughts and feelings to any number of people all in a matter of minutes, even seconds. The messages we receive from friends, by email or voicemail, tend [...]

Welcome to Poetry Play Thursday!

Let’s go back to a more structured prompt today and write an Octopoem.  An octopoem describes someone or something in eight lines using this formula:

Line 1:   A color

Line 2:  A season

Line 3:  A place

Line 4:  A type [...]

Happy Thursday everyone! Today’s visual prompt is simple. All you need do is write a poem using this photo as inspiration:

by Josee Holland Eclipse

I do hope the photo inspires you to write a poem in any form and share it, or a link to it, with us in [...]

I’ve recently noticed a common thread in the blog circles I run with: people, especially women, are eager to fulfill their destiny. Many of us hold a job that we’ve enjoyed over the years but it doesn’t satiate the desire and longing for something more that’s been bubbling up to the surface. [...]

Welcome to Poetry Play Thursday!

It’s time to get back to some poetry fun!  Today’s prompt harkens back to an earlier PPT about found poetry.  Your mission is to pull your material from one of the many social networking sites available to us:  Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca, Plurk, Ning, Jaiku, SocialGo, [...]