Another poem from the spring issue of Peninsula Poets.
Virga / Claire Scott
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A Pleasant Thought of Mortality / Iris Lee Underwood
From the Spring Issue Peninsula Poets.
Prompt: Childhood Beliefs
When you were a kid, you believed things that may not have been quite accurate. I thought I could see atoms when they were actually dust motes, but never mind that! Take something inaccurate you used to believe and go with it.
Georgia O’Keefe’s White Clouds / Sophia Rivkin
From the Spring 2020 issue of Peninsula Poets. We’ll be posting something every couple of days.
Prompt: An Event
From Creative Writing by David Starkey. Write about an event in your life that is almost too embarrassing to write about, but not quite.
Prompt: Recipe for a Poem
This is another fun prompt. Write a poem using a recipe as your guide. I could give you a bunch of advice, but It is possible to stir loathing into a batter of glitter and regret. Bake at 485 for six years.
Prompt: Describe…
From Fiction Writers’ Workshop by Josip Novakovich Describe somebody’s character by the shape, posture and gait of his body. OR describe someone’s character by how they do something. Don’t tell the reader your somebody is sad; show it. (I wrote one using the Biblical phrase “By his shower, ye shall know him.” I’m sure that’s in the Bible.)
Prompt: Smallest Parts
From Writing Poetry by Barbara Drake: Write a poem in terms of the smallest parts of a thing or entity. For example, the eye of a rabbit or lizard, a leaf bud on an apple tree; the battery in your electric watch. (I’m pretty bored by the last one.
Prompt: Recurring Dream
Do you have any recurrent dreams? Write a poem in which you explore the dream in a nonrational way, meaning, don’t explain it. Be in it. Go with it. No doubt there is a message in it for you. Imply it.
Prompt: A Very Short Story
From The 3 a.m. Epiphany by Brian Kitely. Write a very short story in which each sentence has one word from the previous sentence. and is a reexamination of the previous sentence and the word.Use a dictionary or thesaurus to help you keep this crab-style of writing interesting.
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