So sometimes when i'm not myself i become this guy Brad Fish who has a whole series of videos warning people about Dangerous Things You Can Least Expect [DTYCLE] which were either funny or not, depending on whether you found them funny or not. And then today, i discovered that sometimes when i'm not Brad Fish, i might end up becoming Erik [with a K] Erik loves poetry and the soothing effect it has on him [...]
[And now our prompt: keeping to the theme of poetry’s value, Wallace Stevens famously wrote that “money is a kind of poetry.” So today, I challenge you to write about money! It could be about not having enough, having too much (a nice kind of problem to have), the smell, or feel, or sensory aspects of money. It could also just be a poem about how we decide what has value or worth.] hidden treasures [...]
It’s Good Friday. I am sitting in a coffee shop. In Manenberg. A community that is often perceived as hopeless, as a being a part of the cycle of violence and structures and things that will not change. Yet, as I sit in this coffee shop hope prevails. Part of the reason for this is that there are hope bringers in this community as much as there are gangs and drugs and violence. One of [...]
[Today’s prompt springs from the form known as the aubade. These are morning poems, about dawn and daybreak. Many aubades take the form of lovers’ morning farewells.] Just For A Second as i stumble out of bed, you are nowhere to be found i had hoped that you would be waiting for me but no, yet again it seems like i will have to be the one to come downstairs and chase after you my mind [...]
[National Poetry Writing Month - composing a poem a day based on a prompt - Find an Emily Dickinson poem – preferably one you’ve never previously read - and take out all the dashes and line breaks. Make it just one big block of prose. Now, rebreak the lines. Add words where you want. Take out some words. Make your own poem out of it!] I, not Death, stood up it was not death. I [...]
On friday nite we had some mates around for a meal and some in depth conversation. The picture above is not a group selfie but rather a close-up of the phone basket that was my wife's idea. We emailed everyone beforehand to let them know, and as they arrived at the party we held out the basket and they muted their phones and dropped them in and got them again as they left at the [...]
[And now for today’s prompt. Love poems are a staple of the poetry scene. But because so many love poems have been written, there are lots of clichés. Fill your poems with robins and hearts and flowers, and you’ll sound more like a greeting card than a bard. So today, I challenge you to write a “loveless” love poem. Don’t use the word love! And avoid the flowers and rainbows.] word unspoken the unwashable grease stains [...]
And now, for our optional prompt! Today I challenge you to write a fourteener. Fourteeners can be have any number of lines, but each line should have fourteen syllables. Given the day, i decided to go for an Eastery theme: Easter, in fourteen beats An air of doom and gloom has descended upon the earth Friday night's unfortunate events made Saturday tough People dull-faced like zombies trying to take it all in Listening for but [...]
Today, I challenge you to take your gaze upward, and write a poem about the stars. stardust oh distant star how i used to gaze romantically upon you thinking of the wonder it would be to one day shoot off into space and land upon you wandering around creating memories watching planets whizz by as shooting stars sounded off their celestial celebrations in the distance enter science class [stage left] as if learning that your [...]
So, discovering this thing a few days late, but tbV pointed it out to me and with a recent spate of poetry coming out of me both here and here, it feels like a good thing to jump into - [Inter]National Poetry Writing Month where you get a prompt a day and write a poem based on it... The first poem challenge was a poem of negation that involves describing something in terms of what [...]