Prompt for Hour Eleven Half Marathoners are entering the end stretch and Marathoners are approaching the half way point. Hopefully everyone is doing well and writing a lot of poems. The prompt for hour eleven is to write a poem about someone, but to break…

Prompt for Hour Ten Write a poem focused on location. Instead of just focusing on describing that location (be it a house, a car, a lake, a mountain), try and frame it in terms of a story or an idea. Against a landscape of snow…

This hour your challenge is to write a poem about coffee . Although there is one tiny catch. You can never use the words coffee, beans, black, milky, cafe, or caffeine in this poem. You must convey the idea of coffee, of drinking it, without…

She escaped into her world of books. Where the words she reads are the same thing she needs to hear. She finds comfort as the words blanket her hungry heart with a cup of tea. Reading brought her joy. She devours story after story in…

Title a poem as you would start a letter with Dear “insert name here”, then go on to write a poem to the person whose name you used. That person could be real or fully imagined. The contents of the poem could contain truth or…

Death is the theme of many poems and the preoccupation of many poets. Still after all this time poets are churning out new and intriguing approaches to death in poetry. The goal of this prompt is to write a poem about death. The death you…

Shame Red faced- the person in the mirror that doesn’t even meet your eyes. Your insides are knotting up Strip yourself of the unpleasant feeling. Accept it and acknowledge it, but don’t empower your shame. Get over your shame. Guilt You feel responsible, Maybe you…

To Love someone dearer than your life is a beautiful but reckless feeling. To trust your heart in the hands of your lover, you surrender to the eventual consequence of its demise or the birth of something beautiful. Either way, you have to walk on fire…

Happy Nice Polite Perfect Quiet See the masks I wear when I don’t want you to see the REAL ME? Everything I do to hide what goes on behind closed doors So many different ones specifically designed to hide myself from you I’m afraid that…

there comes a time- When it doesn’t comfort- doesn’t help- doesn’t work anymore There comes a time when you know- It’s time to move on time to stop time to put the past behind you There comes a time when someone comes into your life…