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Write about the place you feel most at home in.
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The Poetry Marathon
Prompts for Hour Twenty-Three
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G.K. Chesterton once wrote “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
Use this as a prompt to write about cheese. If you’re looking for a little extra inspiration look no further than Benjamin Garcia’s wonderful Bliss Point or What Best Can be Achieved by Cheese.
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and just in case those don’t work for you
Prompt for Hour Twenty-Two
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Write a poem to wake yourself up.
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Prompts for Hour Twenty-One
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An ode is a formal address to a person, place, or thing, not present. An irregular ode does not have a traditional form but the manner largely retains the tone and thematic elements of the classical odes. There’s a wonderful example poem here, called an Ode to Shea Butter by Angel Nafis.
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Prompts for Hour Twenty
It’s the homestretch/hardest part. Keep going!
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Write a poem about walking at night.
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Prompts for Hour Nineteen
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Write a “self portrait”. It can be accurate, abstract, or absurd. You can read a sample “self portrait” here.
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Prompt for Hour Eighteen
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Use this image and/ or the line it contains “…just be still, and listen” as a jumping off piece. Full credit goes to Shlokla Shankar.
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Prompt for Hour Seventeen
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Use one of these quotes as a jumping off point.
“I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” – Natalie Diaz
“I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it.” – Hanif Abdurraqib
“Books were safer than other people anyway.” – Neil Gaiman
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Prompts Hour Sixteen
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Write a poem focusing on an experience through a sense other than vision – or a sense you don’t often use or ignore.
Contributed by Janette Rosebrook.
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Prompt For Hour Fifteen
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Write about a time when you wish you had said “yes”
Contributed by Christina Halas.
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