Poem A Week

Have a favorite animal? What is it? Write a poem inspired by them! :

Thank you to @romanticchemist for the new club banner!

This would also make a fun poetry prompt?

Nate wrote:Idea for contest: Write a flash fiction story about why the helicopter pilot is even in a cave that gets narrower and narrower.

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Enjoying the new club formatting! If you'd like to join the fun start a thread in the Forum of this club and challenge yourself to a poem every week (or every month!)

Your prompt for this week is the heat of the sun! Woo! Bright, shining, center of our solar system!

Taylor Swift's Wedding, the 250th Anniversary of the United States, Canada Day, YWS Revamp!? This is a pretty exciting week isn't it!?

This week, write a poem about something you're looking forward to, what's *big news* in your life, or what are watching for on the horizon?

Seasonal allergies - hate them! @_@' but sometimes the things that inspire our greatest anger are our greatest muse!

Write a poem about something that makes you ANGRY - whether it's a little hassle in the midst of the week or something that drives your sense of purpose, let out your emotions with a poem! Hey, maybe you'll even find it therapeutic!

Your poetry prompt this week - > a dog named Cherry. #cherry

Also names, repetition, + identity!

Tomatoes. Potatoes. Gardening. Poetry!

It's almost time for LMS to launch! What would you put in a spaceship headed to outer space? What are you counting down to? What is beyond the horizon? There's a few poetry prompts for you!

Prompt - blueberries, watermelon, lemons, a handful of strawberries, and the summer sun bright in your eyes - what will you make?

~ #summerpoetry

Have you ever had someone give you directions to a place based on local landmarks?

ie. "Oh! You want to get to the Stevenson's farm? Easy. Drive straight down Broadway, take a left at Jimmy's Diner, when you hit a gravel road keep on goin, when you see the massive elm tree on your right, turn towards it, and when you see a big red barn on one side of the road and a field of goats on the other side you're about a quarter mile out, look for the well, turn there, if you don't see fire-flies you've gone too far. Say hi to Mr. Stevenson for me."

Well write a poem in the format of giving directions somewhere important to you. The directions can be a little more "poetic" / metaphorical - see what you can do!

If you could create a new holiday what would it be? There's your poetry prompt! <3

Okay a very impressive poetry prompt courtesy of Joy Harjo -> see example here...

Take your shortest poem, this is now poem 1 (pretend mine is "The apple is red" and write a poem where each word of poem 1 falls at the end of a line for poem 2)

example:

I am always telling the
apple tree that I hate apple(s)
and I would rather have oranges instead, but this is
how it must be; fruit that is red.

Joy Harjo's version of this is MUCH more impressive than that - so read that one instead, but also give it a try yourself, it's a fun challenge!

Happy Arbor Day! Write a poem about bugs or trees today if you'd like!