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…

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…

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

Write a poem from the third person perspective about something that happened to you personally.

Write a poem with no visual imagery in it whatsoever. Instead rely on your other 4 senses to pull the poem along.

The half way point or finish line is here, depending on the length of your marathon. So congratulations half marathoners, you are almost there! This prompt is to write about a world with alternative rules. To help inspire this prompt I have included one of…

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 the poem up into…

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.

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…