Prompt-A-Day

 

'Inspiration' ADG  

(These prompts are not meant to be followed in any order nor all of them. These are here to give you some inspiration on days you need one. If you would like to follow along and do all of them, you are welcome to do so.) 

• On folly

• Pick the book nearest to you, go to page 5. Pick any sentence you like and make a poem of it.

• Write a poem which begins with the name of a tree, has the names of one or more birds in the middle and ends with “curve ball.”

• Write a list poem.

• Using eating as a metaphor to write about how one lives one’s life.

• Write about passing time, preferably in a ghazal or sonnet form – or keep it free verse.

• Pick a poem in the DR blog so far, and write a response to it.

• A friendship poem dedicated to a friend (it could also be about a difficult friendship – hold off on the dedication there 😊)

• Write about any one of your body parts.

• Take any scientific concept (your pick it could be anything from gravity to photosynthesis to cell division – whatever) and explain it in a poem.

• Write a poem about your heart’s dearest wish on this day.

• Write a letter to yourself as a child.

• Write a satiric poem.

• Teach yourself a new technique in writing verse – it could be anything you like (a new form, using internal rhymes, effective use of caesura – whatever you like) – and use it in a poem.

• Write a place poem. One you are in or one you travelled to.

• Pick a well-known painting or any form of visual artwork and retell it in a poem.

• Any form of haikai you are familiar with or want to teach yourself and practice (haiku, haiga, haibun, tanka etc.)

• Write a poem about patterns.

• In a poem, grieve what you have not grieved or are grieving.

• Write about what gives you comfort.

• Write about a hard thing. Or write about a soft thing.

• Write about a pet (present, past or someone else’s). Or about any animal.

• Write about what you are seeing outside your window.

• Writing about houses and homes, one or the many, your own or someone else’s.

• Write a season poem.

• Write about a piece of furniture.

• Write an ode to joy.

• Convey exhaustion in a poem without using the words exhausted or tired, but you can use pooped, run-out, and flattened.

• What have you embraced this year? Tell us.

• Write a poem about your favourite day in April.