24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
Text Prompt
A few years back I prompted everyone to write a cheese poem because of this quote, “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” ― G.K. Chesterton. The same could be said of pizza, so that’s your prompt this year. Pizza.
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Write a poem that starts and ends with the word running.
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Write a poem about a routine or ritual that is part of your life. It can be something like making coffee every morning, or something like attending religious services once a week.
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Photo by Robbin Grimm
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Write a poem describing your surroundings as inarticulately as possible, but maintaining just a tiny bit of the truth.
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Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann
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Write a poem about a haunting, real or imagined, detailed or abstract.
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Write a poem either titled or centred around a ‘Kaleidoscope’.
Prompt contributed by Bhasha Dwivedi.
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Photo by Bro Takes Photos
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Write a poem that is pretending to be something else, a set of instructions, a recipe, an letter, a news report, etc.
(Why yes, this prompt was inspired by This is Just to Say, which is a poem pretending to be an apology)
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Photo by Clark Van Der Beken
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Write a poem about an experience, but from the perspective of another. For example you could write a poem about your wedding from the experience of your spouse, or you could write a poem about an argument with a stranger from the perspective of the stranger.
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Photo by Manny Becerra
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Redacting is the act of censoring or obscuring part of a text. Sometimes it is done by the author themselves, and more often it is done by someone else.
I want you to write a poem and then during or after writing the poem choose at least one, or ideally five or more words to redact from the poem. How is the poem changed by this simple act? This is not the same as a “black out” or erasure poem”. The words you are using are your own, and well over 50% of them should be visible.
When writing on physical paper, you can do this easily with a marker, ideally a black sharpie. If you are writing your poem in a Word document, you can use the highlight feature and set the highlight color to black, this creates a black box over the word or words. Or you can just write the word redacted in place of the word you wanted to use.
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Photo by Jon Tyson
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Describe your profession through a funny/humourous poem.
Contributed by Bhasha Dwivedi.
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Photo by Brandon Wong