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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Have you been over to www(dot)wordle(dot)net?  For some reason, I find much enjoyment creating wordles and changing their configuration.  What do you do with them once they’re created?  I guess whatever you like.  Today, I’m going to use one of the wordles I created as a prompt [...]

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Today’s prompt is:

List Poem

Some of us love lists; can’t make it through the day without them.  Some of those lists might prove interesting and can be turned into a poem!  What’s in the attic?  What’s in the kitchen junk drawer?  What’s [...]

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Sunday, June 7th will bring us a full moon, the Full Strawberry Moon (also known as the Full Honey Moon and Full Rose Moon).  To celebrate this, my prompt today is to write an ode to the Moon (or at the very least refer to it in [...]

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Last week was so much fun, I can’t wait to see what you do with the following prompt!  I thought your poems could prove revealing.  I guess we’ll just see now, won’t we?

ME & MY SHADOW

Line   1:  My shadow wears
Line   2:  [an item of [...]

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During the month of May, I’ll be giving you more stuctured prompts and not just a form of poetry.  I tried this one on my A Touch of Inspiration blog and enjoyed it so much, I thought I’d share it here.

Here’s the prompt:

What if _____________?
I might _____________
What if _____________?
I [...]