Tag: #life
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 16 – Games we played
Today’s prompt is to write a poem that prominently features the idea of play. It could be a poem about a sport or game, a poem about people who play (or are playing a game), or even a poem in the form of the rules for a sport or game that you’ve just made up…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 11 – To love and to respect till death do us apart…I promise
The (optional, as always) prompt for the day is taken from one of the prompts that Kwoya Fagin Maples suggests in here interview: a poem that addresses the future, answering the questions “What does y(our) future provide? What is your future state of mind? If you are a citizen of the “union” that is your…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 7- This is Me. That’s Me too!
For today’s prompt, Kyle Dargan suggests writing out a list of all of your different layers of identity. For example, you might be a wife, a grandmother, a Philadelphian, a dental assistant, a rabid Phillies fan, a seamstress, retiree, agnostic, cancer survivor, etc.. These are all ways you could be described or lenses you could…
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NaPoWriMo 2018 : Day 6 – I Worry About You
Today, challenge is to write a poem that stretches your comfort zone with line breaks. That could be a poem with very long lines, or very short lines. Or a poem that blends the two. You might break to emphasize (or de-emphasize) sounds or rhymes, or to create a moment of hesitation in the middle…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 4 – Longing
Today’s challenge, is based on a new craft resource, in the form of an essay by Julie Marie Wade on description in poetry. The prompt focuses on the use of concrete nouns and specific details, using the idea of “putting a dog in it.” Today, we challenge you to write a poem that is about something…