[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 [...]
[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 [...]
to the ones who feel like they're constantly defending please won't you stop for a second and help me on this shine some clarity on the situation because i really don't understand what it is about this that makes you not want to listen please help me recognise what it is that keeps you from engaging in this conversation as if taking some time to lend me your ears will result in a group of [...]
My friend Avuyile, wrote a response to my poem, 'i not me', that i posted earlier today and i felt that it deserved it's own space here on the blog and Avuyile gave me permission. i hope each one of us will take time to really listen to these words... I am meek, for in my meekness I am forced to tolerate you imposing your ideas into my system. I suffer in silence for my [...]
Not sure where this came from - possibly inspired by a few spoken word poets i follow on the Twitterer [@brettfisha] but was lying in bed this morning and suddenly started writing a poem on the Twitterer which means line after line of 140 characters or less, trying to make each line complete and full, while also creating a whole completed piece. This is what emerged: Deep breath. Reset. New day. New ways. To breathe [...]
This was recorded at our Improguise: Players of TheatreSports show last nite and is quite possibly one of the best scenes i have ever been involved in. The best part for me is there was absolutely no planning or pre-thought or idea of what was going to happen until the moment Anne was behind me and i just launched into it and like a true pro she followed and the rest is Improv history. This [...]
1 May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him. 2 May you blow them away like smoke— as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God. i'm not going to lie, i often don't quite know what to do with some of the anger and violence of the Old Testament. When i was young it was as black and white as an old A-team episode [google it, kids!] [...]