Poetry Spotlight

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Writing Prompt: Write an eight-line poem. The first two lines asre about a location/season/setting. The next two are from an overheard conversation you have collected in your notebook or something you heard that day that struck you. The next two lines, more description about that location/season/setting, and the last two lines, a question you want to ask about either the overheard conversation, th...

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Write about uncapping a bottle. Pay vigorous attention to the five senses.   Is it a deluxe wine aged twenty years? A sealed child's sippy cup filled with spoiled milk found underneath the couch? A re-opened bottle of soda gone flat? An old can of moldy paint?

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Writing Prompt: Pick a noun that you feel passionately about. In a stream of consciousness exercise, write two separate descriptions for the same object. These two descriptions can illustrate two different perspectives, or directly clash. Then, using these two halves, create a poetic whole.

Writing Prompt: Try meditation as a pre-writing warm-up. Make an effort to get in-tune with your higher self on a more conscious level. Ask yourself "Who am I?" and "What do I really believe in?" Jot down a list of social norms and societal customs that you totally disagree with. Think about laws, ideas, rules that you feel need to be changed or omitted from society as we know it. Now reflect on p...

Writing Prompt: Go on a nature walk when you feel most comfortable. Stop a few times so you have the chance to take it all in. Then, when you have traveled enough distance to leave the world behind and focus on what is in front of you—write.

Writing Prompt: Tell a story out loud. Walk in circles, a zig-zag, any pattern as if you're having a long phone conversation. And speak out loud. Really wax poetic—stuff as many images, rhymes, slant rhymes, and metaphors as possible while describing your story. Talk as fast as you can and don't let yourself get hung up, embarrassed, or stop. When you're five minutes are up, sit down and write as...