The Poetry Marathon

This is the very last hour and the very last prompt. I am so impressed by everyone that made it this far!

The last prompt is very simple – write a self portrait.

Write a poem using one of the  phrases as your title:

Clown Car

Children Fled Like Moths

The Gypsy Curse

3 Am Pancakes

Write a poem that relies on heavy repetition of the same words or phrase.

Write about your mother’s clothes.

We are in the home stretch! There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Your prompt is to write a poem that contains a metaphor involving food. The metaphor could be an aside or it could be the focus of the poem. The choice is up to you.

For hour nineteen write a sonnet.

Caesar Crossing the Rubicon by Wilhelm Trubner, is one of my favorite paintings. Unlike most paintings of titled Caesar Crossing the Rubicon does not feature an army led by Caesar, instead it is a painting of a dog eying food on a table. I have posted it below.

Your prompt is to write a poem with a stereotypical title for a poem or painting, but the poem itself does not comply with the expectations raised by the title.

For your seventeenth prompt I want you to write a poem about solitude. It could be a poem about solitude under normal circumstances or it could be a poem about extreme solitude, for example being a hermit, or the last person on a life boat.

Architecture figures into a lot of poets work. Stephen Dunn and a number of poets work comes to mind. For this prompt I want you to write a poem about a specific building. It can be in purely visual terms or it can use metaphorical language, or it can be part of a larger narrative.

Below I included two photos of the Brain for inspiration.The Brain is a studio in Seattle, Wa.

Write a lyrical poem that rhymes – it must not contain any narrative.