Write a poem that starts and ends with the same word. It can be short, but it has to be at least five lines long. If you can’t think of your own word to start and end with here are my suggestions: hope, stardust, cheese,…
Category: Official Marathon Prompts
Hour Twenty Three ~ A Different Wonderland ~
Text Prompt Pick the title of a book that you love, that title is now the title of the poem. That poem can be about the book directly, or indirectly, or it can use the title as a jumping off point, and be about something…
Hour Twenty Two ~ Tenderness Pouring from the Skies
Use the word Tenderness as this hour’s prompt. If Love and peace would prevail in this world full of beating hearts warm feelings filling the eyes with tenderness pouring from the skies who would ever think of committing a sin, not one nor two…
Hour Twenty One ~ Umbrella is the Thing
Text Prompt Write a poem that’s no more than 50 words, but one of those words must be either umbrella, or almond. Umbrella Children today, love chips, chocolate nutella- sandwich with ketchup but frown at fruit and vegges only the kebabs are the ‘thing”….
Hour Twenty ~ The Second Breakfast ~ A Haiku
Write a poem using one of the following titles: The Watchtower Second Breakfast Books for Beginners The Woman with the Top Hat Echo Husband Haiku The second breakfast gives life, lifts spirit of health, take it every day.
Hour Nineteen ~ My Friend’s City ~
There are so many nature poems out there. Our prompt for this hour of the night is to write a poem for a city, real or imagined. My Friend’s City When I visit your page,it is as if I am visiting your place in…
Hour Eighteen ~A Brief Line A Moment of Joy
Write a poem about a moment of joy. June 26, 2022 2:07am EDT at 2:07 AM A brief line, yet a complete letter, Nothing, nothing…
Hour Sixteen ~ Guardian of Oaths
Nothing survives without you You the Guardian of oaths Symbol of the gift of sight travel across the skies , in a four winged horse chariot effulgent scathingly warm till a fixed time I a spirit celestial but human form am one with Light from…
Hour Fifteen ~ Knitting and I ~
“Write a poem about someone or something you have lust for.” by Daryl Cole Curnow. When I have nothing else to do, I sit and knit and knit and knit all day- only getting up when its time to pray then back again to the…
Hour Fourteen ~ The Wise Tree ~
“Tell me an old story (like a folktale from your culture, a fairytale you heard when you were young or a story passed down in your family). Tree Stories are common in the East “Moaning again? You are being ungrateful! When will you ever…