Please note that these prompts will be used in the thi ca contests. The function of this bài viết is to provide prompts ahead of time. The thi ca contests will go in the same order as this list. Please do not đệ trình works based on these prompts to the các bài viết section, to avoid possible thievery. However, bạn are thêm than welcome to print out hoặc save this list.
1. Write a poem about one hoặc all of the four seasons. (Some ideas for brainstorming: What does the season look, feel, smell like? What memories do bạn associate with that season?).
2. Write a poem using three of the following words: expensive, lampshade, bruise, convincing.
3. Write a poem about something that happened to someone bạn know. Write about it as if it had happened to you.
4. Write a poem about your shadow. (Some ideas for brainstorming: How does it change when bạn move? What does it look like in different kinds of light, in different situations? What would happen if bạn Mất tích it? Does it have a secret life?)
5. Write a poem using all of the following words: smooth, soothe, work, dark.
6. Write a poem based on a dream bạn had. Try to reproduce the sensations of the dream.
7. Write a poem based on your belief about life after death... hoặc about what bạn WISH bạn believed.
8. Write a poem using all of the following words: snake, honey, thaw.
9. Write a poem from the perspective of a character in a fairy tale.
10. Write a poem using all of the following words: moth, angle, cloth, tangle.
11. Write a poem that tells the story of a specific tình yêu affair hoặc marriage.
12. Write a poem in the form of a message hoặc letter to your future self.
13. Write a poem about the color red hoặc another color. (Some ideas for brainstorming: How does the color make bạn feel? What things do bạn associate with that color?)
14. Write a poem about a place that frightens bạn hoặc a place where bạn feel happy. Try to recreate the feeling of the place.
15. Write a poem using all of the following words: exquisite, visit, glisten.
16. Write a poem about something hoặc someone bạn lost.
17. Write a poem using all of the following words: dim, hinge, dingy.
18. Write a poem in the form of a lullaby.
19. Write a poem about yourself in which nothing is true.
20. Night-time
21. A particular color
22. Being underwater
23. A person whose life you're curious about
24. Your mother's perfume
25. Falling asleep hoặc waking up
26. Growing older
27. The feeling of getting Mất tích in a book
28. How to know if you're in love
29. A bad dream
30. A ghost
31. Your city, town, hoặc neighborhood
32. An important life choice you've made
33. Spring, summer, fall, hoặc winter
34. Something most people see as ugly but which bạn see as beautiful
35. Jealousy
36. Becoming a parent
37. An event that changed you
38. A place bạn visited -- how bạn imagined it beforehand, and what it was actually like
39. The ocean
40. Forgetting
41. The speed of light
42. A voodoo doll
43. Reflections on a window
44. A newspaper headline
45. Your greatest fear
46. Your grandmother's hands
47. A particular toy bạn had as a child
48. Being invisible
49. A time bạn felt homesick
50. Having an affair, hoặc discovering your partner is having one
51. Birthdays
52. A yêu thích thực phẩm and a specific memory of eating it
53. An imaginary city
54. Driving with the radio on
55. Life in an aquarium
56. Dancing
57. Walking with your eyes closed
58. What a computer might daydream about
59. Time travel
60. Brothers hoặc sisters
61. Your job, hoặc a job you've had
62. Weddings
63. Leaving home
64. Camping
65. A zoo
66. A historical event from the perspective of someone who saw it firsthand (You will have to do some research for this).
67. Holding your breath
68. Intimacy and privacy
69. A time bạn were tempted to do something bạn feel is wrong
70. Physical attraction to someone
71. A superstition bạn have
72. Someone bạn admire
73. Write about the taste of: an egg, an orange, medicine, cinnamon
74. Write about the smell of: burning food, melting snow, the ocean, your grandparents' home, the inside of a bus, pavement after the rain
75. Write about the sound of: a radio changing channels, a dog howling, a football hoặc baseball game, your parents talking in another room
76. Write about the sight of: lit windows in a house when you're standing outside at night, someone bạn tình yêu when he hoặc she doesn't know you're watching, a dying plant, shadows on snow
77. Write about the feeling of: cỏ under bare feet, a really bad kiss, the headrush when bạn stand up too fast, sore muscles, falling asleep in the back ghế, chỗ ngồi of a moving car.
78. a dessert, a memory, and someone in your family
79. dancing, a pitch-black room, and the smell of lilacs
80. a balloon, smoke, and a keyhole
81. a secret box, an ice cube tray, and a velvet ribbon
82. a betrayal, soap, and a plane ticket
83. Rain, snow, hoặc a storm
84. An animal bạn think is beautiful hoặc strange
85. Your parents hoặc children
86. How a Kiss feels
87. The house where bạn were born
88. A smell that brings back memories
89. Being a teenager, becoming an adult, middle age, old age
90. Feeling lonely
91. The moon
92. Getting lost
93. Marriage hoặc divorce
94. An imaginary friend
95. Life in the future
96. The hottest, coldest, hoặc most exhausted bạn have ever felt
97. Having a fever
98. A new version of a fairy-tale
99. The shapes bạn see in clouds
100. A letter
101. A recipe
102. A horoscope
103. A fragment from an unusual dictionary
104. A prayer
105. A shopping list
106. A magic spell.
107. One of your parents
108. Your child (real hoặc imagined)
109. A historical figure (You will have to do research for this one.)
110. A very old person
111. An athlete who has just Mất tích the big game
112. The most popular/unpopular kid from your school
113. An inanimate object in your home.
114. Listen to a piece of âm nhạc and write about the hình ảnh that it brings into your mind.
115. People-watch, eavesdrop, and write about your observations and imaginings.
116. Sit in a park and close your eyes. Notice all of the sounds and smells. Write about them afterward.
117. Keep a notebook tiếp theo to your giường and write down your dreams at night to turn them into poems later.
118. Make a danh sách of words bạn think are unusual, then try to use them in poems.
119. Watch an animal and write a poem about what it looks like and what it does.
120. Smell different spices in your phòng bếp, nhà bếp and write about the memories that they inspire.
121. Look through old family photographs and choose some to write poems about.
122. Go on a "field trip" -- a museum, the zoo, a greenhouse -- to hunt for thi ca ideas.
123. Get inspiration from sách on an area of science hoặc history that interests you.
124. Three wishes
125. Traveling to an unknown place
126. Getting a haircut
127. A scientific fact (real hoặc invented)
128. An insect that got into your home
129. The sound of a specific language
130. Death
131. The number 3
132. The ocean
133. Missing someone
134. Something that makes bạn angry
135. The feeling of writing, why bạn want to be a writer
136. The ups and downs of love
137. The view out your window
138. City lights at night
139. A particular work of art
140. Having a superpower
141. Being in an airplane
142. Playing a sport
143. A shadow
144. A person transformed into an animal
145. Daydream
146. Cry
147. Kiss well
148. Find happiness
149. Peel a peach
150. "Silky," "gigantic," and "puzzle."
151. "Leaf," "accelerating," and "sticky."
152. "Skin," "drastic," and "dusty."
153. "Interrupt," "nutmeg," and "crystalline."
154. "Exacting," "oxygen," and "delicate."
155. "Reptilian," "arched," and "honey."
156. First Kiss
157. Chained Angel
158. Empty Heart
159. Sirens Call
160. Bloodline
161. Soldiers Guilt
162. Mothers Guilt
163. Wilting Flower
164. Time Stopped
165. Hidden Away
166. Icy Tears
167. Dream Lover
168. Never Again
169. Slave Girl
170. Mất tích In a Dream
171. Tithe
172. Dream Catcher
173. Empty Coffin
174. Mất tích Days
175. The ngày I Meet You
176. thiên thần Touch
177. Destiny’s Call
178. New Day
179. Black Rose
180. Say My Name
181. Stop My Heart
182. Midnight Hour
183. Don’t Leave
184. Love’s Spell
185. Old House
186. Shallow Grave
187. Broken Chair
188. Dancing Girl
189. Seductive Smile
190. Left Behind
191. Road kill
192. Great white hunter
193. Evil Smile
194. thiên thần Tears
195. The moon glowed as they danced…
196. Can bạn hear me call…?
197. The look in your eye makes me shiver in…
198. She was a thing of beauty and of light…
199. The ngọn lửa, chữa cháy is low and the curtains drawn…
200. Filled with sunshine and laughter…
201. The eagle let out a lonesome cry…
202. I burn for bạn in the darkness…
203. Draw me near and whisper gently…
204. Tell me it isn’t true…
205. The sign stood battered and worn
206. It breathed in the darkness tiếp theo to me…
207. If the devil cried,
208. If the world ended tomorrow...
209. The eyes glowed in the darkness…
210. The waves rolled out across the sands…
211. The ghostly figure shimmered in the light…
212. The path winds forever forward…
213. Beware the charming smile in the night…
214. Mất tích in a dream…
215. The night was thick with romance…
216. Never parted
217. Stranger in the dark
218. Broken carriage
219. Forbidden meeting
220. tình yêu spell
221. Cursed
222. Tears of the vampire
223. A time to die
224. A dreams kiss
225. Midnight vow
226. Hunted
227. Broken sword
228. tim, trái tim of a killer
229. Living statue
230. Secret
231. Blood Slave
232. Painted glass
233. Hidden from sight
234. Shattered mirror
235. Forbidden meeting
236. Grandma
237. Job interview
238. Murdering heart
239. Secrets
240. Confusion
241. Blood tears
242. Liar
243. Reunion
244. Road kill
245. Blindness
246. Burning cross
247. Book
248. The wind
249. Poisoned flower
250. Wild
251. Mob
252. Innocent touch
253. Madness
254. Ancient
255. Beware
256. Blood pact
257. giáng sinh ornament
258. Frozen
259. Broken promise
260. Telephone call
261. Road rage
262. Crossroads
263. Trapped
264. Witch’s familiar
265. Birth
266. Crying ghost
267. Garbage bin
268. Car accident
269. Floating body
270. Late to the party
271. Cursed town
272. False accusation
273. Death’s Visit
274. Woman scorned
275. Key
276. Grandma’s secret
277. Obsession
278. Devil’s tango
279. Broken dice
280. Miles to go
281. Overrun
282. Lost
283. Dead heart
284. Forbidden laughter
285. Old tree
286. Blue eyes
287. Vengeance
288. Dead bugs
289. Returning
290. Sound Off
Sounds are filled with meaning. Poets can use sounds not only to create wonderful and complex worlds through words, but also to create a rhythm and flow that gives life to the wind, the footsteps, and closing doors around us. Sit quietly somewhere with colorful and unique sounds: an art museum, a lonely riverbank, hoặc a bustling subway station. Write a poem about the sounds bạn hear. Focus on the thi ca and âm nhạc of the sounds, and how the sounds put everything else—nature, life, and death—into context.
291. Disappointment
thi ca has very powerful redemptive and healing capacities. The mere process of nghề viết văn and đọc thi ca forces us to connect with life on a meaningful, meditative level. thi ca requires a deliberate and calm contemplation that creates spaces for forgiveness, understanding, and self-awareness. Write a poem about a gần đây disappointment in your life. Be honest about your feelings. The power of your thi ca begins with your truths.
292. Focus on Family
Like snowflakes, every family is unique. From quirky aunts and greedy uncles to gracious moms and despicable cousins, every family is peculiar in some meaningful way. Write a poem about your family. Focus on the people who create the love, the pain, and the dynamics that define your family. Be honest. Be courageous. Be open.
293. Travel Poetry
It is estimated that 43.4 million Americans will travel fifty hoặc thêm miles this Thanksgiving weekend. Travel is so often inspiring because it mixes a sensory experience with the opportunity for a prolonged period of contemplation. Write a poem about a gần đây trip bạn took. Carefully select your words to evoke the sights and sounds that accompanied the journey of your inner thoughts and feelings.
294. Changes
Our lives are constantly changing as we navigate what we can and can’t control. Every ngày there is a new beginning and ending—in big and small ways. We fall in love. We lose an eyelash. Write a poem about how your life is changing. Be specific. Change is complex and emotional on any level because it reminds us of our humanity—and of our mortality. Get writing.
295. Mất tích and Found
We all lose things in life that are uniquely special to us: a wool scarf knitted bởi a beloved friend, a letter opener that belonged to a grandfather, a stuffed animal won for a daughter at a state fair. Life moves phía trước, chuyển tiếp and so do we. Time crowds old memories with new ones. We misplace the things we love. We lose them. Or, somehow, they just leave us. Write a poem about an object that has disappeared from your life. Use the power of memory and emotion to give it new life, rendering it no longer lost, but found.
296. Guest Poetry
The holiday season is here, which means bạn will soon be a guest at a work party, gathering of friends, hoặc family-oriented celebration. This is the season for poets. Begin your “Thank You” poems now. Celebrate what companionship means to bạn and express your gratitude for the honor of being invited. Make your poems personal and sincere. (Consider attaching each poem to a nice bottle of wine and personally hand it to your host.)
297. Our Years of Fear
Halloween week is here. Write a poem about something bạn feared as a child. As adults we fear loneliness, intellectual and financial ruin, and—of course—death. However, children experience the world and their own humanity differently; yet, their fears are just as scary, valid, and profound. Begin the poem as an innocent child. End the poem as a mature adult.
298. Poetic Appreciation
thi ca is an act of appreciation. With our increasingly busy schedules, we lose our ability to appreciate. Poets must resist the modern temptation to overlook what holds meaning in our lives. Identify something in your surroundings—a rusted cuốc đất, hoe draped in con nhện, nhện webs, an unfashionable dress abandoned bởi time, a wine cork buried in a drawer of unpaid bills—and write a poem that appreciates these lonely items.
299. Relationships
Life is about relationships. As with everything in life, all relationships end for various reasons. Think about a relationship that bạn valued that has ended—a friend, a lover, a family member. Write a poem that encapsulates your sense of loss and appreciation and how this particular person impacted your life. The power of thi ca transcends everything that ends.
300. Crash Poetry
Collisions spark creativity. màu sắc collide to form new colors. Opposing ideas create an inspired argument. Friction makes fire. Write a poem that combines two unrelated entities in your life: Imagine your birth certificate under a decaying woodpile, your mother-in-law clenching spark plugs, a bluebird hát in your freezer. Push your imagination. The words will follow.
301. thi ca for Humanity
The human race, bởi nature, is flawed. Deep within our DNA is the capacity for violence, hatred, and deceit. Choose an aspect of human nature that disturbs you. Write a poem describing this ugly and flawed characteristic of human nature. Write a một giây poem about how we, the human race, can fix it.
302. thi ca Appreciation
Revisit one of your yêu thích poems bởi another poet. What appeals to bạn about this particular poem—the structure, the sound, the imagery, the subject matter? Write a poem dedicated to this poet and poem. hiển thị your appreciation bởi instilling those same respected qualities in your own writing.
303. Train Changers
People come in and out of our lives like passengers on a train. Some stay for much of our journey. Others get on and off, quickly disappearing into their own travels. Write a poem about someone who became part of your life, but left the train. Who were they? Why do bạn miss them? What happened? Focus on tone, voice, and imagery.
304. Reaching Out
nghề viết văn thi ca can be a lonely endeavor. đọc poetry, however, can introduce us to people and worlds we’ve never experienced. Use the power of thi ca to help someone who is lonely. The woman resting her head on the steering wheel at a long red light. The old man with a soggy coaster at the end of the bar. The adolescent kid hiding in the school bathroom. Write a poem for them, from you.
305. Change of Words
The end of summer means the beginning of autumn. This is a time of change. Write a poem about the changes occurring in your life. Choose powerful verbs. Focus on the feelings of expectation, fear, and relief that come with change. Use vivid imagery. It is during change that we are often the most alive.
306. phòng bếp, nhà bếp Table
The center of our families, our homes, and our most treasured conversations occur at the phòng bếp, nhà bếp table. We discuss the vibrant color of sautéed asparagus, the deep laugh of a deceased grandfather, hoặc sit quietly, alone, worrying about our children at 3am. Write a poem about your phòng bếp, nhà bếp table, and the food, voices, and thoughts it has experienced over the years.
307. Window Words
Windows, like frames for các bức ảnh and paintings, provide a context to the vast world around us. Sit bởi your yêu thích window and write a poem about life beyond the glass: diaphanous oak leaves spangled in sunlight, fatigued men hanging from a garbage truck, chirping songbirds flitting through summer rain, a hunched elderly woman who feels forgotten. Remember: This is your window as defined bởi your life. Give yourself thirty minutes.
308. thực phẩm for Thought
Think of your yêu thích meal. Write a poem about the recipe, describing how each ingredient and every action contributes to the final whole. Evoke the five senses—from the sound of a whisk to the smell of paprika. Explore what this meal means to bạn and why. Write vibrantly, unless gruel is your thing.
309. Insecurity
nghề viết văn thi ca is an act of empowerment. Sit quietly at your desk. Think about what you’re most insecure about in life: being a good parent, making enough money, not being able to tình yêu fully. Write a poem about how bạn plan to overcome that insecurity.
310. Remembering the August Ahead
Time is what we call the brutal miracle that makes us grow old. Certain months of time remind us of falling in love, burying a loved one, hoặc moving into a new house. This week, as we say goodbye to July, reflect on what August has meant to your life. Begin your poem with your childhood. Then describe how August has changed bạn and your perception of the world.
311. phút to Explain
thi ca harnesses the power of metaphors and similes to reach a part of humanity that is inaccessible to all other forms of communication. Think about someone bạn love. Spend 15 phút making a danh sách of their notable attributes—both flattering and incriminating. Describe those attributes using simple metaphors and similes to explain the complex feelings this person evokes within you.
312. Your Other Life
Poetry, like life, is about making decisions. Write a poem to the person bạn may have become had bạn made an important life decision differently. Remember, this version of bạn is also vulnerable to the whims of an indifferent universe, so you’re merely making an educated guess as to your doppelgänger’s outcome. Craft your poem with respect. You’re nghề viết văn to you.
313. Inch bởi Inch
Choose an inch of không gian anywhere around you: the sole of your hiking boot, the rusted headlight of an abandoned car, that weathered and broken thumb your grandfather used to pry open the back fence. Write about that inch. As poets we often become overwhelmed bởi the big picture. We seek to conquer love, injustice, and the meaning of meaning. Take a step back. Focus the scope of your poetry. nghề viết văn about a single drop of rain can tell us the most about the sky above.
314. Life, friends, is boring
"For the thi ca reader...there are certain emotions bạn are allowed to feel—sadness, love—but this is such a miserable choice of all the emotions one feels," writes Craig Raine in the English Review. "One feels anger, boredom, chilliness—quite strong emotions, but they don't get much of a run in poetry, and I think they should." Write a poem about anger hoặc boredom hoặc any other "nonpoetic" emotion. If bạn have trouble getting started, try using the first line of John Berryman's devastating "Dream Song 14": "Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so."
315. hoa of Evil
On June 25, 1857, French poet Charles Baudelaire published his book Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), which led to his conviction on charges of blasphemy and obscenity. Here's a sample: "Huddled, teeming, like gut-worms bởi the million, a clutch of Demons make whoopee in our brain and, when we breath, Death floods our lungs, an invisible torrent, muffled in groans." Get good and dark: Read a bit from hoa of Evil then write a short poem. Unleash the gut-worms!
316. How's the Weather?
"I know Midwesterners are accused of talking too much about the weather, but that criticism must surely come from people who don't have weather like ours," novelist David Rhodes once wrote to his editor at Milkweed Editions, Ben Barnhart. "These last few weeks have been filled with the bright, indolent humidity of summer, offset bởi sudden, tyrannical darkness and booming threats of Supernatural violence. Not mentioning such revolutionary experiences would be inhuman." Go Midwestern and write a poem about today's weather. And if you're interested, read "After the Flood: A thông tin các nhân of David Rhodes," from the September/October 2008 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
317. Taming the Unruly
In a thông tin các nhân of Natasha Trethewey in the September/October 2012 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, contributing editor Kevin Nance trích dẫn the poet laureate (who was elected to a một giây term on Monday) about her use of poetic form. "I never set out to write in a particular form, but usually something in the early drafting process suggests to me the possibility of a form I might follow that might help take the poem in a better direction than I might have sent it without following that impulse,” Trethewey says. “I find that it helps me with poems that have seemed unruly for some reason—maybe the story is too big, hoặc the emotion of it is overwhelming for me, and the form helps bring shape to it." Choose a poem that has been giving bạn trouble—an unruly poem of your own—and try to rewrite it as a sonnet, a villanelle, a pantoum, hoặc another form. (Consult the Academy of American Poets website for help with poetic forms.)
318. Dark Rooms
In their introduction to My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected thi ca of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan trường đại học Press, 2008), Kevin Killian and Peter Gizzi write about Spicer's idea of the serial poem, "a book-length progression of short poems that function together as a single movement." Robin Blaser described the form as "a dark house, where bạn throw a light on in a room, then turn it off, and enter the tiếp theo room, where bạn turn on a light, and so on." As Spicer's thi ca "moves from dark room to dark room," Killian and Gizzi write, "each flash of illumination leaves an afterimage on the imagination, and the lines of the poem become artifacts of an ongoing engagement with larger forces." Read some of Jack Spicer's long poems, including The Holy Grail and Billy the Kid. Consider throwing a light on some rooms of your own.
319. May Swenson
In honor of the centennial anniversary of the birth of May Swenson, on May 28, read some poems bởi this award-winning poet (consult the Academy of American Poets website for a bibliography), then write a poem with her work in mind. Remember, this is a poet who, four months before her death on December 28, 1989, wrote, "The best thi ca has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct thêm than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem."
320. Overheard
thi ca is all around you. Find a public place—a train station, a park bench, a đường phố, street corner, a coffee shop, a bookstore, the line at the Department of Motor Vehicles—and listen to the people around you. Choose one quote from a stranger and use it as the first and last line of a new poem.
321. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Print hoặc write out a handful of unfinished poems you’ve had difficulty revising. Cut out each line and mix them up. Rearrange the lines to make a new poem. Consider using one of the lines as the title.
322. Achilles' Heel
Pick an iconic figure with a famous weak spot (Superman and kryptonite, Achilles and his heel, Samson and his hair, the Wicked Witch of the West and water). Write a letter from the biểu tượng to the weakness hoặc from the weakness to the icon. Is it hate mail? A tình yêu poem? A blackmail note? Advice?
323. yêu thích Line
Choose a yêu thích hoặc compelling line from another writer's poem, and write your own line with same number of stressed syllables and same vowel sounds. Use this line as the start of a new poem.
324. Write a Terza Rima
Write a Terza Rima, a poem of three-line stanzas in which the end-word of the một giây line in the first tercet establishes the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet and so on. The poem can have as many stanzas as you’d like, and the rhyme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. continues through the final stanza.
325. A Poem for You
Write a poem of fourteen lines. Instead of using the first person (I), use only the một giây person (you).
326. Turn It Over
Choose a word hoặc phrase bạn find yourself saying often (e.g. like, totally, hate, really, kind of) and write a poem using it as much as possible, turning it over and over, repositioning it, extending it, playing with its uses and the parts of speech into which it can be shaped.
327. Just Say It
Choose a poem—a classic work hoặc something you've newly discovered—and memorize it. As bạn do so, note the rhythms, sounds, and structure that help bạn remember it. To test your memory, and in honor of National thi ca Month, consider reciting it to a friend in person, leaving a recording of it on a friend's voicemail, hoặc sending an audio file of it to one hoặc thêm Những người bạn via e-mail.
328. Make a Collage
Make a collage inspired bởi a working draft of one of your poems, using hình ảnh from books, photographs, magazines, newspapers, and drawings. bạn may incorporate words as well. Let the transformation of your poem into another medium inform a revision of the poem on the page.
329. Record the Dailies
Collect phrases and words that bạn see throughout the ngày today. Arrange them on the page, using line breaks where they seem to naturally fall. Next, above the lines you’ve recorded, write words and phrases that are somehow related to those on the page, such as synomyms, antonyms, hoặc words that sound hoặc look similar. Rewrite what you’ve recorded replacing the new words with the old. Use this as the first draft of a poem and continue revising it into a finished draft.
330. Look and Listen
Today there are fifteen lines of thi ca that will present themselves to bạn in various ways. Some will be visual, some will be spoken. Look and listen carefully. Take the time to record them. Then refine them and use them to craft a poem.
331. Imaginary Friend
Write a poem in the form of a letter to an imaginary friend in which bạn ask them for help that begins, Dear Friend. Keeping the person hoặc creature hoặc entity you’re nghề viết văn to in mind, include details and hình ảnh that reveal your imaginary friend’s characteristics as bạn craft your entreaty.
332. The Form It Takes
As poet Ted Kooser writes in The thi ca trang chủ Repair Manual: Practical Lời khuyên for Beginning Poets (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), “When it comes to the form your poem takes, bạn can determine it as bạn write....As bạn work on your poem, try to see what shape the thi ca wants to assume.” Following Kooser’s advice, write a draft of a poem and analyze its structure. How many lines does it have? How many stanzas? How many stressed syllables per line? Look for a dominant pattern in what you’ve written and revise the poem to fit that pattern consistently.
333. Write a Villanelle
Choose two yêu thích lines from a working draft of a poem that needs revision. Write a villanelle, using those lines for the refrains. See the Academy of American Poets' website for thêm about the villanelle form, a poem of nineteen lines made up of five stanzas with three lines each.
334. Text Me
Send a line of thi ca to a friend via text message hoặc e-mail and ask her to soạn thảo a line in response. Collaborate on drafting a poem in this way, building it line bởi line until bạn both agree that it's reached its end. Using the final product as a draft, revise the poem and have your friend do the same. Compare your final drafts.
335. Clip Art
Using scissors, cut up one of your poems that needs revision into its lines hoặc parts of lines. Rearrange these clippings in various combinations and create a new draft. Write a revision of your poem based on this new draft.
336. After Robert Frost
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of American poet Robert Frost. To honor this day, read Frost's poem "Stopping bởi Woods on a Snowy Evening" on the Academy of American Poets' website. Analyze the poem's structure, and write a poem with the same rhyme scheme and number of lines.
337. Playing With Definitions
Choose any word from the dictionary and read its definitions. Write a poem using only the language of these definitions. Try repeating them in different combinations and using line break to create unexpected phrases. Experiment with how far bạn can push the limits of the language you're working with. Use the word you've chosen as the tiêu đề of the poem.
338. Powers of Observation
Look out your window hoặc observe your surroundings and make a danh sách of ten images. Choose the three that bạn find most compelling and freewrite about them, exploring any memories hoặc associations they elicit. Put your freewriting exercise aside, and draft a poem that incorporates at least five of the hình ảnh from your list.
339. This Is Just to Say
Think about something that bạn did hoặc đã đưa ý kiến to someone that bạn regret. Write a poem of apology, comprising five four-line stanzas, with the same number of stressed syllables in each line. Avoid sentimentality. Rely on images, rhythm, and structure to convey your regret.
340. Shakespearean Sonnet
Start the năm off with one of Shakespeare’s yêu thích forms. Write a sonnet, a poem comprising fourteen lines that incorporates the following rhyme scheme: a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. (For example, the words at the end of the first and third lines rhyme, etc.) Before bạn begin, flip through any book and select seven words at random. Use these words, hoặc variations of them, in the poem.
341. Make a List
Write a poem that is a danh sách of people, places, and/or things that bạn long for.
342. thi ca Prompt - Write an Anaphora poem. An Anaphora is "the repetition of a word hoặc expression several times within a clause hoặc within a paragraph". In thi ca the repetition of the phrase can be just at the beginning of each line, setting the tone as a meditation hoặc a mantra, hoặc it can be utilized thêm subtlety within the poem. The poem can be free verse hoặc prose style.
343. thi ca Prompt - Write a free verse poem using "sparrows".
344. thi ca Prompt - Write a series of các câu hỏi and các câu trả lời to soạn thảo a poem.
345. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that describes a walk through a house from the perspective of a child.
346. thi ca Prompt - Write three different impressions of "saturation". (e.g.: color, sound, aroma, urban-ness, etc.)
347. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the prompt: "chain-link fence"
348. thi ca Prompt - Write a three part poem using "metronome".
349. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem concerning the "absence" of something. Consider the absence as a positive, hoặc a negative.
350. thi ca Prompt - danh sách ten items that bạn would buy at an auction, hoặc tag sale. Write a poem including those items. bạn may chose to tiêu đề your poem, "Things Found At An Auction". Variation, have someone else create a danh sách for you.
351. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that starts with a one word title, two words in the first line, three in the next, and continues bởi adding one word per line. (Variation: use as a prose exercise.)
352. thi ca Prompt - "This and That"- Write a danh sách of phrases such as "salt and pepper", "cats and dogs", "love and war". Write a poem with the first stanza about the first word and the một giây stanza about the một giây word.
353. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem based on the concept hoặc idea of a "Mobeus strip".
354. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that begins with a mô tả of an event, telling what appears to be happening. Then give a mô tả of what is really occurring.
355. thi ca Prompt - As an exercise, write a solo "renga". (Not to argue the authenticity of a renga being written bởi two poets - not one) A renga is a Japanese poetic form similar to haiku, but a series of stanzas linked bởi an idea. Please visit these pages for a full, non-confrontational definition of renga:
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356. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using, "paper and chalk".
357. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the following title: "Another Language", hoặc "Translation".
358. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the following start: "What good is a day..."
359. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem about the "ultimate" poem, hoặc what a poem "should" do.
360. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem in the disguise of a postcard message. Continue bởi nghề viết văn a reply postcard message.
361. thi ca Prompt - Create a poem using three trinkets. Such as, a shell, a silver charm, and a feather.
362. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the phrase "a foreign language".
363. thi ca Prompt - On a slip of paper write a danh sách of 15 "free association" words. Use the 15 words in a poem. Variation: Create and exchange a danh sách with another person. Then use their danh sách of words to write a poem.
364. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using, "how to...". For example, "how to write a poem", "how to break my heart"," how to distinguish a hoa from a frog".
365. thi ca Prompt - Write three shaped-verse poems. Shaped-verse poems are a form of "pattern poetry", where the letters, words, and lines of the poem are arranged to form a picture/outline of the subject of the poem. An example is a poem in the shape of a giáng sinh cây discussing your thoughts about giáng sinh itself, family traditions, and so on.
366. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that repeats a selected word in each line. Consider using foreign translations of the word. (cat, gato, catze).
367. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem with a seasonal theme.
368. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem about seasonings. For example, "Salt and Saffron".
369. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Paradise of Strangers".
370. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using, " Between Silences".
371. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using "Writers Anonymous" as your title. (Or, "Hi My Name Is ")
372. thi ca Prompt - Transitory - Write a poem based on transitory things.
373. thi ca Prompt - Make a danh sách of your yêu thích lines from poetry. Use these lines in a collage hoặc create a pocket journal that has one line per page. Memorize them. (And then, optionally, for bạn Mark Strand fans, eat them.)
374. thi ca Prompt - Write a Tercet. Examples:
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375. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem about something that "spirals".
376. thi ca Prompt - Write a culinary poem celebrating food.
377. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that is representative of language/communication.
378. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem about a very small object.
379. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem using hình ảnh of things that are connected, such as "paperclip(s)", hoặc "trains".
380. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that is about the "un-truth".
381. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem about things that are transparent.
382. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that starts at the end, moving backwards.
383. thi ca Exercise - Write a villanelle, hoặc a terzanelle.
A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. (from link)
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A terzanelle is a thi ca form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima. It is nineteen lines total, with five triplets and a concluding quatrain. The rhyme scheme is as follows: Ending Type 1:fAFA' (from link)
384. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem using the theme of, "x-ray", hoặc seeing through layers.
385. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that focuses on sound.
386. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem about playing Jacks, Hopscotch, hoặc another such game.
387. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem in three parts about three different people and their interaction with an item that is the same. The object can be passed between them, hoặc it can be the "same" possession and not the "actual" object the other people have.
388. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that uses the style of a devotion and prayer.
389. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that is written in the style of magnetic poetry. For your word bank bạn can use one hoặc two pages from a book, magazine hoặc newspaper. bạn might want to make a photocopy of the pages and cut the words apart, hoặc just transcribe them randomly to your word bank.
390. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that is based on a painting. (You can find many classic paintings here: link)
Example: Pieter Brueghel, The Fall of Icarus
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391. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that refers to "Romeo and Juliet".
392. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Lines of Conversation".
393. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Love Poem Number 137".
394. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "You Need to Have a Plan".
395. Write a poem about how bạn assembled a puzzle hoặc game from your childhood. Focus on the imagery, the pieces, intention and focus.
396. Write a tình yêu poem to your yêu thích book. Be sure to flip through the book, focusing on what bạn found was most meaningful.
397. Write a poem that incorporates both the view of the antagonist and protagonist in a fairy tale.
398. Ask your Những người bạn to give bạn five ngẫu nhiên phrases. The phrases can be fragments hoặc sentences, and should not reference phim chiếu rạp if possible. Write a poem that incorporates these five phrases.
399. Think of a course bạn have always wanted to take. Write a poem that focuses on why bạn find this class to be appealing hoặc interesting. Again, this should not be a class bạn have taken yet. bạn want to write a poem that captures your raw level interest in the course.
400. Write a poem dedicated to the dreams bạn remember the least. These do not have to be dreams bạn wish to remember, but write to them regardless.
401. danh sách the three most inconvenient things that happened to bạn today. Now write a poem about at least one of them.
402. Write a poem about your experience in some type of vehicle used for long distance such as a car, airplane hoặc a train. Where were bạn going? Was it comfortable? Who did bạn meet hoặc talk to? Did bạn forget anything hoặc find something? Did bạn arrive at the right destination?
403. Find an unpublished poem that bạn haven’t looked at in years. Randomly choose three lines from the poem. Write a completely different using those lines.
404. Think of a product hoặc a service bạn dislike. Imagine bạn have the opportunity to convince them to take that product hoặc service off the market. Write a poem that incorporates your message about this product hoặc service.
405. Take an image that bạn can recall from the prior week. Use this image to help bạn write a poem.
406. Think about something specific a loved one does for you. This can be anything from receiving back rubs from your partner hoặc getting seasonal cards from your aunt. Write a poem that incorporates the feelings and hình ảnh associated with this event.
407. Pick your yêu thích tìm kiếm engine. Perform a tìm kiếm on any word bạn can think of. Choose a word that does not have particular importance to you. Read through the first two pages that come up in the tìm kiếm engine. Pick two sentences and write a poem incorporating those sentences.
408. Think of at least three people from your hometown that bạn haven’t talked to in a long time. Write a poem that is aimed to address these people for the first time in years.
409. Think of the best independent restaurant bạn have eaten at recently. Write a poem about the flavors and sensations of the meal and drinks.
410. Think about a coworker hoặc colleague bạn find distasteful. Write a poem about how this person saves your life.
411. Write a poem that admits a dark secret of yours.
412. Write a poem from the perspective of a creature that lives in a cave hoặc in the deep sea.
413. Listen to a song bạn really enjoy. Focus on your most yêu thích part of the music. Write a poem about all the sensations, images, feelings, lyrics and other components of that specific part of the song.
414. Imagine yourself living 300 hoặc thêm years ago. bạn still have the same personality and body. Write a poem about yourself and your interactions and with the people of that time.
415. Write a poem about the frustration hoặc stresses a pet must feel. Pets could include household pets, circus animals, zoo động vật and so on.
416. Think about a political issue bạn strongly disagree with. Now write a poem where the aim is to and convince yourself to actually agree with that point.
417. Write a poem about what bạn expect the end of the world might be like.
418. Write a poem that introduces a book bạn dislike. bạn can even use a poem that bạn aren’t particularly happy with. Write a poem introducing that poem to readers.
419. Write a poem about what bạn would do if your ex-boyfriend hoặc ex-girlfriend was transformed into a giant stone animal.
420. Write a poem about an animate and inanimate object falling in tình yêu with each other.
421. Picture a beautiful landscape. Write a poem about that landscape.
422. Take a look at a map. Randomly select a town hoặc city bạn have never been to. Write a poem about what bạn think it might be like visiting that place for the first time.
423. Write a poem from the perspective of someone who is from another culture.
424. Take a topic bạn feel uncomfortable nghề viết văn about. Write a poem about that topic.
425. Write a poem about a historical battle that really reverberates with you.
426. Look up some very rare hoa in at least two different countries. Write a poem that incorporates the features of these plants and their many parts.
427. Pick a topic in the computing sciences that bạn know absolutely nothing about. Do a quick tìm kiếm on it, and spend at least 30 phút trying to understand it from your perspective. Write a poem either about the experience hoặc the topic.
428. Find one of your yêu thích recipes. Write a poem that utilizes some of the steps of that recipe.
429. Write a poem about the way a specific room changes throughout a year. Focus on the objects in the room, lighting, dirt hoặc dust, stains, smells and all the other parts that make a room.
430. Write a poem about some aspect of the grieving hoặc bereavement process. The loss, anger, loneliness, acceptance and moving on are all potential topics.
431. Write a poem about positive transformations One example might be the moment that someone bạn thought was unattractive hoặc plain was suddenly beautiful.
432. Find a cause seeking donations in your community. Imagine this cause is having an auction to raise donations. Write a poem about that auction. Mention if bạn would bid and what bạn would bid.
433. Write a poem designed for the personals section in a newspaper hoặc online listing. Try to incorporate the type of nghề viết văn typically used in a personals section.
434. Write a poem about a piece of clothing bạn would thiết kế if bạn had the resources and poem.
435. Write a poem about the moment when bạn lose a necessary piece that is needed to make something electronic work. Some examples might include losing a charger for a computer hoặc âm nhạc player.
436. Write a poem in which bạn ultimately apologize to someone hoặc something.
437. Try to remember some of the most memorable thi ca readings bạn have attended. Write a poem saying thank bạn to those readings and the readers.
438. Check your local news for any new gallery exhibits in the area. Attend the exhibit and write a poem that discusses some elements of the exhibit.
439. Write a persona poem on someone that is very controversial. Consider nghề viết văn a poem on a serial killer hoặc a famous gang member.
440. Go outside and note at least three different cars on your street. Incorporate the make and model of the car, color and other features of the car into a poem.
441. Write a poem about cloning someone who is recently deceased. Think of various attributes of the tổng thể cloning process such as personality differences, health problems, controversy, and the comparisons of the deceased to the new clone.
442. Write a poem from the perspective of someone who dislikes what bạn do professionally.
443. Write a poem about how bạn find happiness through something that actually makes bạn deeply unhappy.
444. Look at the last 10 poems bạn have written. Pay attention to the ending lines. Use one of those ending lines to begin a new poem.
445. Use the word Pattern in the first line and/or the last line of your poem.
446. Write a poem that begins with bạn waking up.
447. Write a poem that begins with a proclamation. If bạn need a phrase to get your juices going, try “I will”.
448. Write the final line to your poem first, and then write the poem to get to that ending. I am choosing to end my poem with “His hallucinations make him giggle” which others are welcome to use.
449. Pick three words that bạn absolutely tình yêu the sound of and set out to use them in your poem.
450. Use the same (or similar) words in both your first line and last line, but change the order hoặc the meaning of the words from the first line to the last line.
451. Write a poem that involves an animal.
452. Write a danh sách poem about things bạn have done in your life.
453. Use the word “secret” twice in your poem.
454. Use a letter count as a constraint for your poetry, either nghề viết văn a brand new poem hoặc rewriting an old poem to fit the new pattern. bạn can either count the spaces and punctuation between words as letters hoặc count only the actual letters. Keep in mind that bạn don’t have to use the exact same number in every line, bạn can also develop at pattern such as 20-25-20-25.
455. Write hoặc rewrite a greeting card poem so that is has meaning to you, hoặc at least is funny.
456. A Ritual Poem takes a ritual (real hoặc imagined) and brings a sense of meaning and reflection to the ritual it describes. Here are some steps to follow (a ritual poem ritual):
1. Pick an element of life that has hoặc deserves a ritual
2. Decide the result bạn would want the ritual to produce
3. Think of the actions bạn would take to achieve the result
4. Turn the actions into steps hoặc commands
457. Write a poem using Skeltonic Verse.
458. Write a poem about a specific but minor memory bạn have from thêm than five, but less than ten years ago.
459. Write a Tanka. Feel free to write thêm than one if bạn like.
460. Write a definition poem. A definition poem takes a word hoặc a concept and attempts to define it, provide perspective, redefine it, hoặc create a definitive example of it.
461. Write a poem that is set at hoặc near where bạn live.
462. Write a poem in the form of a letter (epistle).
463. Write a poem that begins and ends with three single syllable words.
464. Write a poem that begins with a line of Lời khuyên hoặc instruction, such as don’t give up hoặc take a left at the willow tree.
465. September 21st is the last ngày of summer in the northern hemisphere and the last ngày of winter in the southern hemisphere. With that in mind, write a poem in which the seasons play a role.
466. Write a poem in which a similar hoặc identical phrase is repeated three hoặc thêm times throughout the poem.
467. Write a poem using iambic pentameter. If bạn aren’t familiar with Iambic pentameter, it is discussed in full here.
468. Write a poem that begins with the word “I”.
469. Write a poem as that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.
470. Write a poem about a natural event.
471. Use one of the lists of words above hoặc pick your own morpheme and use it to add adnomination to your poetry.
472. Pick two hoặc three words from your last poem use them as the first three words of this poem.
473. Write a poem that gets shorter with each line.
474. Write a poem about the end of something.
475. Write a poem about something bạn believe.
476. Write a poem that includes at least one mô tả of an object that is six hoặc thêm words long.
477. Write a poem that uses some sort of meter. If bạn want a challenge, attempt a meter bạn haven’t worked with before. For an extra added challenge, try to work in the word belly.
478. Write a Blues Sonnet:
1. Write 5 thematically similar heroic couplets of iambic pentameter.
2. In first four, repeat first line of each couplet, yielding the 14 lines of the sonnet.
3. Then, if desired, modify middle lines, of the stanzas without disturbing rhyme hoặc rhythm to strengthen the stanza and give variety.
4. Get out a blues recording and have fun hát your blues song!
479. Write a poem about an event in your life that bạn have strong feelings about (it doesn’t have to be painful) without stating how bạn feel about the event. If bạn want an extra challenge, end every third line with the letter “R”.
480. Write a poetic parable. Feel free to play with the form. Sometimes it is thêm interesting when the lesson is just a bit absurd.
481. Write about something in your life that bạn do every day. If bạn want an added challenge, make the first and the last lines the same hoặc similar.
482. Write a blank verse poem. Blank verse has meter, but no rhyme. The typical meter for blank verse is iambic pentameter, but bạn can try other meters as well. If bạn want an added challenge, include the word “line”.
483. Write a Pantoum. Feel free to experiment with the form until bạn write something to your own liking. If bạn enjoyed this, try a sestina hoặc villanelle.
484. Write a poem that tells a story. For an added challenge, use a word count. Write four stanzas, each with 30 words.
485. Write a poem as if it were an entry in someone’s journal hoặc diary hoặc even their Twitter account. If bạn want an added challenge, your stanzas to 145 characters so they mirror the limitations of texting.
486. Go outdoors and get some fresh air. Find a comfortable spot and write a poem. If bạn want to try a tanka (or a few) go for it.
487. Write a poem in ten minutes. It should have at least 100 words. For an added challenge, work in the word “speed”.
488. Create your own found poem. If bạn are looking for inspiration, use Google News to find an bài viết to your liking.
489. Write a poem that uses exactly the same number of characters on every line. bạn can pick the length, but once bạn start bạn have to stick to it. For an extra challenge, try nghề viết văn about an event that has happened in the past 24 hour.
490. Write a poem that ends with the word “quiet”.
491. Either use a set of hyponyms as the structure for your poem hoặc write a poem around the phrase, “He was blue, she was a rabbit.”
492. Write a poem that uses something other than traditional end rhyme.
493. Create a poem that uses one of the following word combinations (they don’t have to be in the same line):
1. boot, tune, fool
2. but, feet, knot
3. kit, tap, pock
4. seize, fourth, thighs
494. Write about something bạn can see from the window of your home.
495. Write a poem about a place bạn have been hoặc a journey bạn have taken.
496. Call an old friend and write a poem after the conversation
497. Find an original way to describe a chair and make that the first line of your poem.
498. Write about the first time bạn did something.
499. Write a poem that demonstrates strong emotion without ever stating what that emotion is.
500. Write a poem about a contest, a win, hoặc a loss.
501. Write a poem as if it were a letter to a friend.
502. Include the word right hoặc rights in your poem.
503. Start your poem with a piece of advice.
504. Write a poem about your childhood. Explore an actual event that had some emotional significance to you. Avoid using any mô tả of how bạn felt about the event then hoặc how bạn feel about it now. Instead, try to make the emotion of the event come through in your descriptions of what happened. Feel free to post your poem in the các bình luận hoặc on your own site with a link back to here. This will give other people the opportunity to read your poem.
505. Write about an event in your life that happened within the past week. Take some time to think about the week and look for event that has some emotional meaning for you, but not so much that it would be painful for bạn to write about. Sometimes smaller moments have thêm meaning. Feel free to post your poem in the các bình luận hoặc on your own site with a link back to here. This will give other people the opportunity to read your poem.
506. Find a news hoặc opinion bài viết that was published on the web this week. I recommend using Google News because it can take bạn just about anywhere. Look for a story that has some emotional hoặc philosophical impact on bạn and use that story as the basis for your poem. If bạn post your poem here, be sure to post a link to the original bài viết so we can see the inspiration!
507. Get out of the house and write in a new place. Write about the place bạn choose to go to. Don’t just rely on what bạn see. Describe the smells, the tastes and the sounds if bạn can. Try to give your readers a full picture of the place bạn choose.
508. Write a persona poem that incorporates one of the past two concepts. It should either address a social issue hoặc it should provide a strong sense of place. One great way to do the latter is to write a poem in a public place, and to observe the people around bạn until bạn find someone interesting that bạn can imagine a back-story for.
509. Take at least five phút to meditate in a quiet room free of outside influences before bạn write today’s poem. Try to clear your head of stray thoughts. Once bạn feel like bạn are clear and calm, write your poem. Let the topic be about whatever comes to mind after your meditation. If bạn have never meditated before, simply sit in a chair with your eyes closed and try to relax.
510. Write a danh sách poem that uses a single line for each item on the list. Feel free to choose one of the topics above, hoặc use anything else that comes to mind. As always, post the poem in the các bình luận section if bạn would like to share it.
511. Write an elegy about a person hoặc event that is meaningful to you. bạn don’t necessarily have to approach the most tragic event in your life. Don’t try to take on an event that is still too difficult for bạn to deal with. Look for something that bạn can handle.
512. Write a poem using a specific meter. The meter can be of your own choosing hoặc even your own making, as long as bạn put a pattern into place. As always, feel free to post your poem in the bình luận section of this post.
513. Write a three hoặc thêm stanza poem that uses a metered style for the first two stanzas and a non-metered format for the remaining stanzas. As always, feel free to post your poem in the các bình luận section for others to see.
514. Read a poet bạn don’t like. Try to figure out what they do that upsets bạn and determine whether hoặc not this assessment is fair. Try to think of ways that bạn would approach the same subject matter using your style. Write a poem that addresses some of the same subject / style / tone of the poet bạn dislike but do it in your own style.
515. Write a poem using syllabic verse. bạn can assign length ether bởi line hoặc stanza. If bạn are stuck for a way to begin, start with this two-word ten-syllable line: Incompatible Participation
516. Read a poet bạn don’t like. Try to figure out what they do that upsets bạn and determine whether hoặc not this assessment is fair. Try to think of ways that bạn would approach the same subject matter using your style. Write a poem that addresses some of the same subject / style / tone of the poet bạn dislike but do it in your own style.
517. Today is a two-part assignment. The first part is to think about your method of nghề viết văn poetry. The một giây part is to shake up your process. If bạn have a lot of structure, try loosening up. If bạn write very loosely, try adding some structure to the process. Find a new place to write hoặc use a different tool. The change doesn’t have to be major, but if bạn post your poem, please tell us what bạn changed.
518. Write a poem that uses at least two different forms of repetition. Try to embrace at least one form of repetition that bạn don’t ordinarily use.
519. Write a poem that follows the three rules of the imagists.
1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective hoặc objective.
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
3. As regarding rhythm: to soạn thảo in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.
520. Revisit a trước đó poem, perhaps one bạn especially liked hoặc one bạn had trouble with, and write another poem following those same parameters.
521. Wikipedia’s ngẫu nhiên Button is a great and magical thing. Click it and write about whatever subject comes up.
522. Include the words “formal” and “casual” at some point in your poem.
523. Write a poem that has a variable line length rather than a set meter. Use either enjammed hoặc endstopped lines.
524. Write a poem that begins with a negative image hoặc statement and ends with a positive image hoặc statement.
525. Write a three stanza poem that shows a progression with each stanza. The three stanzas should serve as a beginning, middle and end respectively. It might help to picture the poem as a three act play.
526. Try something that scares bạn (just a little) and then write a poem about it.
527. Write a poem that discusses a real moment in your life without discussing its larger meaning hoặc attempting to lead the reader to a conclusion.
528. Include a verb in every line of your poem.
529. Write a poem that begins and ends with the same word.
530. Write the first draft of your poem in paragraph form and then change it into a free verse poem. Don’t be surprised if bạn have to change lines, words and phrases. That is a part of the process.
531. Look at some old photographs and write about a memory hoặc a thought that they give you.
532. Write a poem that either uses no words longer than five letters hoặc no words shorter than five letters.
533. Write the final line of your poem first, then figure out a way to get there.
534. I feel like ending with something technical but random. Don’t include any word with a single “A” in it, but do include at least one word with two “A”s in it.
535. Write a poem that takes place inside a vehicle (car, truck, train, plane, boat, etc.)
536. Write a poem in which bạn use three different words for the same hoặc a similar color.
537. Write a poem that uses two hoặc thêm different settings / locations.
538. Write a poem that includes at least three different flavors and two odors.
539. Write a poem in which each line has six words and makes a statement hoặc at least expresses a complete thought.
540. Write a poem in which every stanza either begins with a câu hỏi hoặc ends with a question.
541. Write a poem in the form of a joke.
542. Write a poem that takes place at a public gathering such as a meeting, a carnival, a sporting event hoặc a concert.
543. Write a poem about building hoặc creating something bởi hand.
544. Write a poem that involves cutting, chopping hoặc dividing something.
545. Write a poem about having to defend yourself hoặc someone else.
546. Write a poem in which bạn discuss three things that bạn hoặc your persona wants.
547. Write a poem that repeatedly uses numbers.
548. Write a poem that involves a plan.
549. Write a poem that take place at a specific time of the day.
550. Write a poem that involves consequences.
551. Write a poem that takes place in hoặc otherwise involves a classroom.
552. Write a poem about waiting for a specific event.
553. Write a poem about getting Mất tích hoặc losing something.
554. Write a poem about getting hoặc sending a message (postcard, letter, phone call, email)
555. Write a poem that includes something that malfunctions hoặc breaks down.
556. Write a poem about training for something hoặc working towards a distant goal.
557. Write a poem about a person hoặc a place that has several different names (it’s actually quite common).
558. Write a poem in which something gets opened hoặc closed.
559. Write a poem in which something gets faked hoặc simulated.
560. Write a poem about a rivalry.
561. Write a poem about a place that has changed considerably over time (construction, destruction, renovation, disrepair, etc.)
562. Write a poem that involves flirtation.
563. Write a poem that includes a path, a trail, hoặc a map.
564. Write a poem that involves a long-term relationship (love, friendship, family, group, etc.)
1. Write a poem about one hoặc all of the four seasons. (Some ideas for brainstorming: What does the season look, feel, smell like? What memories do bạn associate with that season?).
2. Write a poem using three of the following words: expensive, lampshade, bruise, convincing.
3. Write a poem about something that happened to someone bạn know. Write about it as if it had happened to you.
4. Write a poem about your shadow. (Some ideas for brainstorming: How does it change when bạn move? What does it look like in different kinds of light, in different situations? What would happen if bạn Mất tích it? Does it have a secret life?)
5. Write a poem using all of the following words: smooth, soothe, work, dark.
6. Write a poem based on a dream bạn had. Try to reproduce the sensations of the dream.
7. Write a poem based on your belief about life after death... hoặc about what bạn WISH bạn believed.
8. Write a poem using all of the following words: snake, honey, thaw.
9. Write a poem from the perspective of a character in a fairy tale.
10. Write a poem using all of the following words: moth, angle, cloth, tangle.
11. Write a poem that tells the story of a specific tình yêu affair hoặc marriage.
12. Write a poem in the form of a message hoặc letter to your future self.
13. Write a poem about the color red hoặc another color. (Some ideas for brainstorming: How does the color make bạn feel? What things do bạn associate with that color?)
14. Write a poem about a place that frightens bạn hoặc a place where bạn feel happy. Try to recreate the feeling of the place.
15. Write a poem using all of the following words: exquisite, visit, glisten.
16. Write a poem about something hoặc someone bạn lost.
17. Write a poem using all of the following words: dim, hinge, dingy.
18. Write a poem in the form of a lullaby.
19. Write a poem about yourself in which nothing is true.
20. Night-time
21. A particular color
22. Being underwater
23. A person whose life you're curious about
24. Your mother's perfume
25. Falling asleep hoặc waking up
26. Growing older
27. The feeling of getting Mất tích in a book
28. How to know if you're in love
29. A bad dream
30. A ghost
31. Your city, town, hoặc neighborhood
32. An important life choice you've made
33. Spring, summer, fall, hoặc winter
34. Something most people see as ugly but which bạn see as beautiful
35. Jealousy
36. Becoming a parent
37. An event that changed you
38. A place bạn visited -- how bạn imagined it beforehand, and what it was actually like
39. The ocean
40. Forgetting
41. The speed of light
42. A voodoo doll
43. Reflections on a window
44. A newspaper headline
45. Your greatest fear
46. Your grandmother's hands
47. A particular toy bạn had as a child
48. Being invisible
49. A time bạn felt homesick
50. Having an affair, hoặc discovering your partner is having one
51. Birthdays
52. A yêu thích thực phẩm and a specific memory of eating it
53. An imaginary city
54. Driving with the radio on
55. Life in an aquarium
56. Dancing
57. Walking with your eyes closed
58. What a computer might daydream about
59. Time travel
60. Brothers hoặc sisters
61. Your job, hoặc a job you've had
62. Weddings
63. Leaving home
64. Camping
65. A zoo
66. A historical event from the perspective of someone who saw it firsthand (You will have to do some research for this).
67. Holding your breath
68. Intimacy and privacy
69. A time bạn were tempted to do something bạn feel is wrong
70. Physical attraction to someone
71. A superstition bạn have
72. Someone bạn admire
73. Write about the taste of: an egg, an orange, medicine, cinnamon
74. Write about the smell of: burning food, melting snow, the ocean, your grandparents' home, the inside of a bus, pavement after the rain
75. Write about the sound of: a radio changing channels, a dog howling, a football hoặc baseball game, your parents talking in another room
76. Write about the sight of: lit windows in a house when you're standing outside at night, someone bạn tình yêu when he hoặc she doesn't know you're watching, a dying plant, shadows on snow
77. Write about the feeling of: cỏ under bare feet, a really bad kiss, the headrush when bạn stand up too fast, sore muscles, falling asleep in the back ghế, chỗ ngồi of a moving car.
78. a dessert, a memory, and someone in your family
79. dancing, a pitch-black room, and the smell of lilacs
80. a balloon, smoke, and a keyhole
81. a secret box, an ice cube tray, and a velvet ribbon
82. a betrayal, soap, and a plane ticket
83. Rain, snow, hoặc a storm
84. An animal bạn think is beautiful hoặc strange
85. Your parents hoặc children
86. How a Kiss feels
87. The house where bạn were born
88. A smell that brings back memories
89. Being a teenager, becoming an adult, middle age, old age
90. Feeling lonely
91. The moon
92. Getting lost
93. Marriage hoặc divorce
94. An imaginary friend
95. Life in the future
96. The hottest, coldest, hoặc most exhausted bạn have ever felt
97. Having a fever
98. A new version of a fairy-tale
99. The shapes bạn see in clouds
100. A letter
101. A recipe
102. A horoscope
103. A fragment from an unusual dictionary
104. A prayer
105. A shopping list
106. A magic spell.
107. One of your parents
108. Your child (real hoặc imagined)
109. A historical figure (You will have to do research for this one.)
110. A very old person
111. An athlete who has just Mất tích the big game
112. The most popular/unpopular kid from your school
113. An inanimate object in your home.
114. Listen to a piece of âm nhạc and write about the hình ảnh that it brings into your mind.
115. People-watch, eavesdrop, and write about your observations and imaginings.
116. Sit in a park and close your eyes. Notice all of the sounds and smells. Write about them afterward.
117. Keep a notebook tiếp theo to your giường and write down your dreams at night to turn them into poems later.
118. Make a danh sách of words bạn think are unusual, then try to use them in poems.
119. Watch an animal and write a poem about what it looks like and what it does.
120. Smell different spices in your phòng bếp, nhà bếp and write about the memories that they inspire.
121. Look through old family photographs and choose some to write poems about.
122. Go on a "field trip" -- a museum, the zoo, a greenhouse -- to hunt for thi ca ideas.
123. Get inspiration from sách on an area of science hoặc history that interests you.
124. Three wishes
125. Traveling to an unknown place
126. Getting a haircut
127. A scientific fact (real hoặc invented)
128. An insect that got into your home
129. The sound of a specific language
130. Death
131. The number 3
132. The ocean
133. Missing someone
134. Something that makes bạn angry
135. The feeling of writing, why bạn want to be a writer
136. The ups and downs of love
137. The view out your window
138. City lights at night
139. A particular work of art
140. Having a superpower
141. Being in an airplane
142. Playing a sport
143. A shadow
144. A person transformed into an animal
145. Daydream
146. Cry
147. Kiss well
148. Find happiness
149. Peel a peach
150. "Silky," "gigantic," and "puzzle."
151. "Leaf," "accelerating," and "sticky."
152. "Skin," "drastic," and "dusty."
153. "Interrupt," "nutmeg," and "crystalline."
154. "Exacting," "oxygen," and "delicate."
155. "Reptilian," "arched," and "honey."
156. First Kiss
157. Chained Angel
158. Empty Heart
159. Sirens Call
160. Bloodline
161. Soldiers Guilt
162. Mothers Guilt
163. Wilting Flower
164. Time Stopped
165. Hidden Away
166. Icy Tears
167. Dream Lover
168. Never Again
169. Slave Girl
170. Mất tích In a Dream
171. Tithe
172. Dream Catcher
173. Empty Coffin
174. Mất tích Days
175. The ngày I Meet You
176. thiên thần Touch
177. Destiny’s Call
178. New Day
179. Black Rose
180. Say My Name
181. Stop My Heart
182. Midnight Hour
183. Don’t Leave
184. Love’s Spell
185. Old House
186. Shallow Grave
187. Broken Chair
188. Dancing Girl
189. Seductive Smile
190. Left Behind
191. Road kill
192. Great white hunter
193. Evil Smile
194. thiên thần Tears
195. The moon glowed as they danced…
196. Can bạn hear me call…?
197. The look in your eye makes me shiver in…
198. She was a thing of beauty and of light…
199. The ngọn lửa, chữa cháy is low and the curtains drawn…
200. Filled with sunshine and laughter…
201. The eagle let out a lonesome cry…
202. I burn for bạn in the darkness…
203. Draw me near and whisper gently…
204. Tell me it isn’t true…
205. The sign stood battered and worn
206. It breathed in the darkness tiếp theo to me…
207. If the devil cried,
208. If the world ended tomorrow...
209. The eyes glowed in the darkness…
210. The waves rolled out across the sands…
211. The ghostly figure shimmered in the light…
212. The path winds forever forward…
213. Beware the charming smile in the night…
214. Mất tích in a dream…
215. The night was thick with romance…
216. Never parted
217. Stranger in the dark
218. Broken carriage
219. Forbidden meeting
220. tình yêu spell
221. Cursed
222. Tears of the vampire
223. A time to die
224. A dreams kiss
225. Midnight vow
226. Hunted
227. Broken sword
228. tim, trái tim of a killer
229. Living statue
230. Secret
231. Blood Slave
232. Painted glass
233. Hidden from sight
234. Shattered mirror
235. Forbidden meeting
236. Grandma
237. Job interview
238. Murdering heart
239. Secrets
240. Confusion
241. Blood tears
242. Liar
243. Reunion
244. Road kill
245. Blindness
246. Burning cross
247. Book
248. The wind
249. Poisoned flower
250. Wild
251. Mob
252. Innocent touch
253. Madness
254. Ancient
255. Beware
256. Blood pact
257. giáng sinh ornament
258. Frozen
259. Broken promise
260. Telephone call
261. Road rage
262. Crossroads
263. Trapped
264. Witch’s familiar
265. Birth
266. Crying ghost
267. Garbage bin
268. Car accident
269. Floating body
270. Late to the party
271. Cursed town
272. False accusation
273. Death’s Visit
274. Woman scorned
275. Key
276. Grandma’s secret
277. Obsession
278. Devil’s tango
279. Broken dice
280. Miles to go
281. Overrun
282. Lost
283. Dead heart
284. Forbidden laughter
285. Old tree
286. Blue eyes
287. Vengeance
288. Dead bugs
289. Returning
290. Sound Off
Sounds are filled with meaning. Poets can use sounds not only to create wonderful and complex worlds through words, but also to create a rhythm and flow that gives life to the wind, the footsteps, and closing doors around us. Sit quietly somewhere with colorful and unique sounds: an art museum, a lonely riverbank, hoặc a bustling subway station. Write a poem about the sounds bạn hear. Focus on the thi ca and âm nhạc of the sounds, and how the sounds put everything else—nature, life, and death—into context.
291. Disappointment
thi ca has very powerful redemptive and healing capacities. The mere process of nghề viết văn and đọc thi ca forces us to connect with life on a meaningful, meditative level. thi ca requires a deliberate and calm contemplation that creates spaces for forgiveness, understanding, and self-awareness. Write a poem about a gần đây disappointment in your life. Be honest about your feelings. The power of your thi ca begins with your truths.
292. Focus on Family
Like snowflakes, every family is unique. From quirky aunts and greedy uncles to gracious moms and despicable cousins, every family is peculiar in some meaningful way. Write a poem about your family. Focus on the people who create the love, the pain, and the dynamics that define your family. Be honest. Be courageous. Be open.
293. Travel Poetry
It is estimated that 43.4 million Americans will travel fifty hoặc thêm miles this Thanksgiving weekend. Travel is so often inspiring because it mixes a sensory experience with the opportunity for a prolonged period of contemplation. Write a poem about a gần đây trip bạn took. Carefully select your words to evoke the sights and sounds that accompanied the journey of your inner thoughts and feelings.
294. Changes
Our lives are constantly changing as we navigate what we can and can’t control. Every ngày there is a new beginning and ending—in big and small ways. We fall in love. We lose an eyelash. Write a poem about how your life is changing. Be specific. Change is complex and emotional on any level because it reminds us of our humanity—and of our mortality. Get writing.
295. Mất tích and Found
We all lose things in life that are uniquely special to us: a wool scarf knitted bởi a beloved friend, a letter opener that belonged to a grandfather, a stuffed animal won for a daughter at a state fair. Life moves phía trước, chuyển tiếp and so do we. Time crowds old memories with new ones. We misplace the things we love. We lose them. Or, somehow, they just leave us. Write a poem about an object that has disappeared from your life. Use the power of memory and emotion to give it new life, rendering it no longer lost, but found.
296. Guest Poetry
The holiday season is here, which means bạn will soon be a guest at a work party, gathering of friends, hoặc family-oriented celebration. This is the season for poets. Begin your “Thank You” poems now. Celebrate what companionship means to bạn and express your gratitude for the honor of being invited. Make your poems personal and sincere. (Consider attaching each poem to a nice bottle of wine and personally hand it to your host.)
297. Our Years of Fear
Halloween week is here. Write a poem about something bạn feared as a child. As adults we fear loneliness, intellectual and financial ruin, and—of course—death. However, children experience the world and their own humanity differently; yet, their fears are just as scary, valid, and profound. Begin the poem as an innocent child. End the poem as a mature adult.
298. Poetic Appreciation
thi ca is an act of appreciation. With our increasingly busy schedules, we lose our ability to appreciate. Poets must resist the modern temptation to overlook what holds meaning in our lives. Identify something in your surroundings—a rusted cuốc đất, hoe draped in con nhện, nhện webs, an unfashionable dress abandoned bởi time, a wine cork buried in a drawer of unpaid bills—and write a poem that appreciates these lonely items.
299. Relationships
Life is about relationships. As with everything in life, all relationships end for various reasons. Think about a relationship that bạn valued that has ended—a friend, a lover, a family member. Write a poem that encapsulates your sense of loss and appreciation and how this particular person impacted your life. The power of thi ca transcends everything that ends.
300. Crash Poetry
Collisions spark creativity. màu sắc collide to form new colors. Opposing ideas create an inspired argument. Friction makes fire. Write a poem that combines two unrelated entities in your life: Imagine your birth certificate under a decaying woodpile, your mother-in-law clenching spark plugs, a bluebird hát in your freezer. Push your imagination. The words will follow.
301. thi ca for Humanity
The human race, bởi nature, is flawed. Deep within our DNA is the capacity for violence, hatred, and deceit. Choose an aspect of human nature that disturbs you. Write a poem describing this ugly and flawed characteristic of human nature. Write a một giây poem about how we, the human race, can fix it.
302. thi ca Appreciation
Revisit one of your yêu thích poems bởi another poet. What appeals to bạn about this particular poem—the structure, the sound, the imagery, the subject matter? Write a poem dedicated to this poet and poem. hiển thị your appreciation bởi instilling those same respected qualities in your own writing.
303. Train Changers
People come in and out of our lives like passengers on a train. Some stay for much of our journey. Others get on and off, quickly disappearing into their own travels. Write a poem about someone who became part of your life, but left the train. Who were they? Why do bạn miss them? What happened? Focus on tone, voice, and imagery.
304. Reaching Out
nghề viết văn thi ca can be a lonely endeavor. đọc poetry, however, can introduce us to people and worlds we’ve never experienced. Use the power of thi ca to help someone who is lonely. The woman resting her head on the steering wheel at a long red light. The old man with a soggy coaster at the end of the bar. The adolescent kid hiding in the school bathroom. Write a poem for them, from you.
305. Change of Words
The end of summer means the beginning of autumn. This is a time of change. Write a poem about the changes occurring in your life. Choose powerful verbs. Focus on the feelings of expectation, fear, and relief that come with change. Use vivid imagery. It is during change that we are often the most alive.
306. phòng bếp, nhà bếp Table
The center of our families, our homes, and our most treasured conversations occur at the phòng bếp, nhà bếp table. We discuss the vibrant color of sautéed asparagus, the deep laugh of a deceased grandfather, hoặc sit quietly, alone, worrying about our children at 3am. Write a poem about your phòng bếp, nhà bếp table, and the food, voices, and thoughts it has experienced over the years.
307. Window Words
Windows, like frames for các bức ảnh and paintings, provide a context to the vast world around us. Sit bởi your yêu thích window and write a poem about life beyond the glass: diaphanous oak leaves spangled in sunlight, fatigued men hanging from a garbage truck, chirping songbirds flitting through summer rain, a hunched elderly woman who feels forgotten. Remember: This is your window as defined bởi your life. Give yourself thirty minutes.
308. thực phẩm for Thought
Think of your yêu thích meal. Write a poem about the recipe, describing how each ingredient and every action contributes to the final whole. Evoke the five senses—from the sound of a whisk to the smell of paprika. Explore what this meal means to bạn and why. Write vibrantly, unless gruel is your thing.
309. Insecurity
nghề viết văn thi ca is an act of empowerment. Sit quietly at your desk. Think about what you’re most insecure about in life: being a good parent, making enough money, not being able to tình yêu fully. Write a poem about how bạn plan to overcome that insecurity.
310. Remembering the August Ahead
Time is what we call the brutal miracle that makes us grow old. Certain months of time remind us of falling in love, burying a loved one, hoặc moving into a new house. This week, as we say goodbye to July, reflect on what August has meant to your life. Begin your poem with your childhood. Then describe how August has changed bạn and your perception of the world.
311. phút to Explain
thi ca harnesses the power of metaphors and similes to reach a part of humanity that is inaccessible to all other forms of communication. Think about someone bạn love. Spend 15 phút making a danh sách of their notable attributes—both flattering and incriminating. Describe those attributes using simple metaphors and similes to explain the complex feelings this person evokes within you.
312. Your Other Life
Poetry, like life, is about making decisions. Write a poem to the person bạn may have become had bạn made an important life decision differently. Remember, this version of bạn is also vulnerable to the whims of an indifferent universe, so you’re merely making an educated guess as to your doppelgänger’s outcome. Craft your poem with respect. You’re nghề viết văn to you.
313. Inch bởi Inch
Choose an inch of không gian anywhere around you: the sole of your hiking boot, the rusted headlight of an abandoned car, that weathered and broken thumb your grandfather used to pry open the back fence. Write about that inch. As poets we often become overwhelmed bởi the big picture. We seek to conquer love, injustice, and the meaning of meaning. Take a step back. Focus the scope of your poetry. nghề viết văn about a single drop of rain can tell us the most about the sky above.
314. Life, friends, is boring
"For the thi ca reader...there are certain emotions bạn are allowed to feel—sadness, love—but this is such a miserable choice of all the emotions one feels," writes Craig Raine in the English Review. "One feels anger, boredom, chilliness—quite strong emotions, but they don't get much of a run in poetry, and I think they should." Write a poem about anger hoặc boredom hoặc any other "nonpoetic" emotion. If bạn have trouble getting started, try using the first line of John Berryman's devastating "Dream Song 14": "Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so."
315. hoa of Evil
On June 25, 1857, French poet Charles Baudelaire published his book Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), which led to his conviction on charges of blasphemy and obscenity. Here's a sample: "Huddled, teeming, like gut-worms bởi the million, a clutch of Demons make whoopee in our brain and, when we breath, Death floods our lungs, an invisible torrent, muffled in groans." Get good and dark: Read a bit from hoa of Evil then write a short poem. Unleash the gut-worms!
316. How's the Weather?
"I know Midwesterners are accused of talking too much about the weather, but that criticism must surely come from people who don't have weather like ours," novelist David Rhodes once wrote to his editor at Milkweed Editions, Ben Barnhart. "These last few weeks have been filled with the bright, indolent humidity of summer, offset bởi sudden, tyrannical darkness and booming threats of Supernatural violence. Not mentioning such revolutionary experiences would be inhuman." Go Midwestern and write a poem about today's weather. And if you're interested, read "After the Flood: A thông tin các nhân of David Rhodes," from the September/October 2008 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
317. Taming the Unruly
In a thông tin các nhân of Natasha Trethewey in the September/October 2012 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, contributing editor Kevin Nance trích dẫn the poet laureate (who was elected to a một giây term on Monday) about her use of poetic form. "I never set out to write in a particular form, but usually something in the early drafting process suggests to me the possibility of a form I might follow that might help take the poem in a better direction than I might have sent it without following that impulse,” Trethewey says. “I find that it helps me with poems that have seemed unruly for some reason—maybe the story is too big, hoặc the emotion of it is overwhelming for me, and the form helps bring shape to it." Choose a poem that has been giving bạn trouble—an unruly poem of your own—and try to rewrite it as a sonnet, a villanelle, a pantoum, hoặc another form. (Consult the Academy of American Poets website for help with poetic forms.)
318. Dark Rooms
In their introduction to My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected thi ca of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan trường đại học Press, 2008), Kevin Killian and Peter Gizzi write about Spicer's idea of the serial poem, "a book-length progression of short poems that function together as a single movement." Robin Blaser described the form as "a dark house, where bạn throw a light on in a room, then turn it off, and enter the tiếp theo room, where bạn turn on a light, and so on." As Spicer's thi ca "moves from dark room to dark room," Killian and Gizzi write, "each flash of illumination leaves an afterimage on the imagination, and the lines of the poem become artifacts of an ongoing engagement with larger forces." Read some of Jack Spicer's long poems, including The Holy Grail and Billy the Kid. Consider throwing a light on some rooms of your own.
319. May Swenson
In honor of the centennial anniversary of the birth of May Swenson, on May 28, read some poems bởi this award-winning poet (consult the Academy of American Poets website for a bibliography), then write a poem with her work in mind. Remember, this is a poet who, four months before her death on December 28, 1989, wrote, "The best thi ca has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct thêm than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem."
320. Overheard
thi ca is all around you. Find a public place—a train station, a park bench, a đường phố, street corner, a coffee shop, a bookstore, the line at the Department of Motor Vehicles—and listen to the people around you. Choose one quote from a stranger and use it as the first and last line of a new poem.
321. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Print hoặc write out a handful of unfinished poems you’ve had difficulty revising. Cut out each line and mix them up. Rearrange the lines to make a new poem. Consider using one of the lines as the title.
322. Achilles' Heel
Pick an iconic figure with a famous weak spot (Superman and kryptonite, Achilles and his heel, Samson and his hair, the Wicked Witch of the West and water). Write a letter from the biểu tượng to the weakness hoặc from the weakness to the icon. Is it hate mail? A tình yêu poem? A blackmail note? Advice?
323. yêu thích Line
Choose a yêu thích hoặc compelling line from another writer's poem, and write your own line with same number of stressed syllables and same vowel sounds. Use this line as the start of a new poem.
324. Write a Terza Rima
Write a Terza Rima, a poem of three-line stanzas in which the end-word of the một giây line in the first tercet establishes the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet and so on. The poem can have as many stanzas as you’d like, and the rhyme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. continues through the final stanza.
325. A Poem for You
Write a poem of fourteen lines. Instead of using the first person (I), use only the một giây person (you).
326. Turn It Over
Choose a word hoặc phrase bạn find yourself saying often (e.g. like, totally, hate, really, kind of) and write a poem using it as much as possible, turning it over and over, repositioning it, extending it, playing with its uses and the parts of speech into which it can be shaped.
327. Just Say It
Choose a poem—a classic work hoặc something you've newly discovered—and memorize it. As bạn do so, note the rhythms, sounds, and structure that help bạn remember it. To test your memory, and in honor of National thi ca Month, consider reciting it to a friend in person, leaving a recording of it on a friend's voicemail, hoặc sending an audio file of it to one hoặc thêm Những người bạn via e-mail.
328. Make a Collage
Make a collage inspired bởi a working draft of one of your poems, using hình ảnh from books, photographs, magazines, newspapers, and drawings. bạn may incorporate words as well. Let the transformation of your poem into another medium inform a revision of the poem on the page.
329. Record the Dailies
Collect phrases and words that bạn see throughout the ngày today. Arrange them on the page, using line breaks where they seem to naturally fall. Next, above the lines you’ve recorded, write words and phrases that are somehow related to those on the page, such as synomyms, antonyms, hoặc words that sound hoặc look similar. Rewrite what you’ve recorded replacing the new words with the old. Use this as the first draft of a poem and continue revising it into a finished draft.
330. Look and Listen
Today there are fifteen lines of thi ca that will present themselves to bạn in various ways. Some will be visual, some will be spoken. Look and listen carefully. Take the time to record them. Then refine them and use them to craft a poem.
331. Imaginary Friend
Write a poem in the form of a letter to an imaginary friend in which bạn ask them for help that begins, Dear Friend. Keeping the person hoặc creature hoặc entity you’re nghề viết văn to in mind, include details and hình ảnh that reveal your imaginary friend’s characteristics as bạn craft your entreaty.
332. The Form It Takes
As poet Ted Kooser writes in The thi ca trang chủ Repair Manual: Practical Lời khuyên for Beginning Poets (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), “When it comes to the form your poem takes, bạn can determine it as bạn write....As bạn work on your poem, try to see what shape the thi ca wants to assume.” Following Kooser’s advice, write a draft of a poem and analyze its structure. How many lines does it have? How many stanzas? How many stressed syllables per line? Look for a dominant pattern in what you’ve written and revise the poem to fit that pattern consistently.
333. Write a Villanelle
Choose two yêu thích lines from a working draft of a poem that needs revision. Write a villanelle, using those lines for the refrains. See the Academy of American Poets' website for thêm about the villanelle form, a poem of nineteen lines made up of five stanzas with three lines each.
334. Text Me
Send a line of thi ca to a friend via text message hoặc e-mail and ask her to soạn thảo a line in response. Collaborate on drafting a poem in this way, building it line bởi line until bạn both agree that it's reached its end. Using the final product as a draft, revise the poem and have your friend do the same. Compare your final drafts.
335. Clip Art
Using scissors, cut up one of your poems that needs revision into its lines hoặc parts of lines. Rearrange these clippings in various combinations and create a new draft. Write a revision of your poem based on this new draft.
336. After Robert Frost
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of American poet Robert Frost. To honor this day, read Frost's poem "Stopping bởi Woods on a Snowy Evening" on the Academy of American Poets' website. Analyze the poem's structure, and write a poem with the same rhyme scheme and number of lines.
337. Playing With Definitions
Choose any word from the dictionary and read its definitions. Write a poem using only the language of these definitions. Try repeating them in different combinations and using line break to create unexpected phrases. Experiment with how far bạn can push the limits of the language you're working with. Use the word you've chosen as the tiêu đề of the poem.
338. Powers of Observation
Look out your window hoặc observe your surroundings and make a danh sách of ten images. Choose the three that bạn find most compelling and freewrite about them, exploring any memories hoặc associations they elicit. Put your freewriting exercise aside, and draft a poem that incorporates at least five of the hình ảnh from your list.
339. This Is Just to Say
Think about something that bạn did hoặc đã đưa ý kiến to someone that bạn regret. Write a poem of apology, comprising five four-line stanzas, with the same number of stressed syllables in each line. Avoid sentimentality. Rely on images, rhythm, and structure to convey your regret.
340. Shakespearean Sonnet
Start the năm off with one of Shakespeare’s yêu thích forms. Write a sonnet, a poem comprising fourteen lines that incorporates the following rhyme scheme: a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. (For example, the words at the end of the first and third lines rhyme, etc.) Before bạn begin, flip through any book and select seven words at random. Use these words, hoặc variations of them, in the poem.
341. Make a List
Write a poem that is a danh sách of people, places, and/or things that bạn long for.
342. thi ca Prompt - Write an Anaphora poem. An Anaphora is "the repetition of a word hoặc expression several times within a clause hoặc within a paragraph". In thi ca the repetition of the phrase can be just at the beginning of each line, setting the tone as a meditation hoặc a mantra, hoặc it can be utilized thêm subtlety within the poem. The poem can be free verse hoặc prose style.
343. thi ca Prompt - Write a free verse poem using "sparrows".
344. thi ca Prompt - Write a series of các câu hỏi and các câu trả lời to soạn thảo a poem.
345. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that describes a walk through a house from the perspective of a child.
346. thi ca Prompt - Write three different impressions of "saturation". (e.g.: color, sound, aroma, urban-ness, etc.)
347. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the prompt: "chain-link fence"
348. thi ca Prompt - Write a three part poem using "metronome".
349. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem concerning the "absence" of something. Consider the absence as a positive, hoặc a negative.
350. thi ca Prompt - danh sách ten items that bạn would buy at an auction, hoặc tag sale. Write a poem including those items. bạn may chose to tiêu đề your poem, "Things Found At An Auction". Variation, have someone else create a danh sách for you.
351. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that starts with a one word title, two words in the first line, three in the next, and continues bởi adding one word per line. (Variation: use as a prose exercise.)
352. thi ca Prompt - "This and That"- Write a danh sách of phrases such as "salt and pepper", "cats and dogs", "love and war". Write a poem with the first stanza about the first word and the một giây stanza about the một giây word.
353. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem based on the concept hoặc idea of a "Mobeus strip".
354. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that begins with a mô tả of an event, telling what appears to be happening. Then give a mô tả of what is really occurring.
355. thi ca Prompt - As an exercise, write a solo "renga". (Not to argue the authenticity of a renga being written bởi two poets - not one) A renga is a Japanese poetic form similar to haiku, but a series of stanzas linked bởi an idea. Please visit these pages for a full, non-confrontational definition of renga:
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356. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using, "paper and chalk".
357. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the following title: "Another Language", hoặc "Translation".
358. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the following start: "What good is a day..."
359. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem about the "ultimate" poem, hoặc what a poem "should" do.
360. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem in the disguise of a postcard message. Continue bởi nghề viết văn a reply postcard message.
361. thi ca Prompt - Create a poem using three trinkets. Such as, a shell, a silver charm, and a feather.
362. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the phrase "a foreign language".
363. thi ca Prompt - On a slip of paper write a danh sách of 15 "free association" words. Use the 15 words in a poem. Variation: Create and exchange a danh sách with another person. Then use their danh sách of words to write a poem.
364. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using, "how to...". For example, "how to write a poem", "how to break my heart"," how to distinguish a hoa from a frog".
365. thi ca Prompt - Write three shaped-verse poems. Shaped-verse poems are a form of "pattern poetry", where the letters, words, and lines of the poem are arranged to form a picture/outline of the subject of the poem. An example is a poem in the shape of a giáng sinh cây discussing your thoughts about giáng sinh itself, family traditions, and so on.
366. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that repeats a selected word in each line. Consider using foreign translations of the word. (cat, gato, catze).
367. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem with a seasonal theme.
368. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem about seasonings. For example, "Salt and Saffron".
369. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Paradise of Strangers".
370. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using, " Between Silences".
371. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using "Writers Anonymous" as your title. (Or, "Hi My Name Is ")
372. thi ca Prompt - Transitory - Write a poem based on transitory things.
373. thi ca Prompt - Make a danh sách of your yêu thích lines from poetry. Use these lines in a collage hoặc create a pocket journal that has one line per page. Memorize them. (And then, optionally, for bạn Mark Strand fans, eat them.)
374. thi ca Prompt - Write a Tercet. Examples:
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375. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem about something that "spirals".
376. thi ca Prompt - Write a culinary poem celebrating food.
377. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that is representative of language/communication.
378. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem about a very small object.
379. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem using hình ảnh of things that are connected, such as "paperclip(s)", hoặc "trains".
380. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that is about the "un-truth".
381. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem about things that are transparent.
382. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that starts at the end, moving backwards.
383. thi ca Exercise - Write a villanelle, hoặc a terzanelle.
A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. (from link)
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A terzanelle is a thi ca form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima. It is nineteen lines total, with five triplets and a concluding quatrain. The rhyme scheme is as follows: Ending Type 1:fAFA' (from link)
384. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem using the theme of, "x-ray", hoặc seeing through layers.
385. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that focuses on sound.
386. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem about playing Jacks, Hopscotch, hoặc another such game.
387. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem in three parts about three different people and their interaction with an item that is the same. The object can be passed between them, hoặc it can be the "same" possession and not the "actual" object the other people have.
388. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that uses the style of a devotion and prayer.
389. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that is written in the style of magnetic poetry. For your word bank bạn can use one hoặc two pages from a book, magazine hoặc newspaper. bạn might want to make a photocopy of the pages and cut the words apart, hoặc just transcribe them randomly to your word bank.
390. thi ca Exercise - Write a poem that is based on a painting. (You can find many classic paintings here: link)
Example: Pieter Brueghel, The Fall of Icarus
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391. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem that refers to "Romeo and Juliet".
392. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Lines of Conversation".
393. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Love Poem Number 137".
394. thi ca Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "You Need to Have a Plan".
395. Write a poem about how bạn assembled a puzzle hoặc game from your childhood. Focus on the imagery, the pieces, intention and focus.
396. Write a tình yêu poem to your yêu thích book. Be sure to flip through the book, focusing on what bạn found was most meaningful.
397. Write a poem that incorporates both the view of the antagonist and protagonist in a fairy tale.
398. Ask your Những người bạn to give bạn five ngẫu nhiên phrases. The phrases can be fragments hoặc sentences, and should not reference phim chiếu rạp if possible. Write a poem that incorporates these five phrases.
399. Think of a course bạn have always wanted to take. Write a poem that focuses on why bạn find this class to be appealing hoặc interesting. Again, this should not be a class bạn have taken yet. bạn want to write a poem that captures your raw level interest in the course.
400. Write a poem dedicated to the dreams bạn remember the least. These do not have to be dreams bạn wish to remember, but write to them regardless.
401. danh sách the three most inconvenient things that happened to bạn today. Now write a poem about at least one of them.
402. Write a poem about your experience in some type of vehicle used for long distance such as a car, airplane hoặc a train. Where were bạn going? Was it comfortable? Who did bạn meet hoặc talk to? Did bạn forget anything hoặc find something? Did bạn arrive at the right destination?
403. Find an unpublished poem that bạn haven’t looked at in years. Randomly choose three lines from the poem. Write a completely different using those lines.
404. Think of a product hoặc a service bạn dislike. Imagine bạn have the opportunity to convince them to take that product hoặc service off the market. Write a poem that incorporates your message about this product hoặc service.
405. Take an image that bạn can recall from the prior week. Use this image to help bạn write a poem.
406. Think about something specific a loved one does for you. This can be anything from receiving back rubs from your partner hoặc getting seasonal cards from your aunt. Write a poem that incorporates the feelings and hình ảnh associated with this event.
407. Pick your yêu thích tìm kiếm engine. Perform a tìm kiếm on any word bạn can think of. Choose a word that does not have particular importance to you. Read through the first two pages that come up in the tìm kiếm engine. Pick two sentences and write a poem incorporating those sentences.
408. Think of at least three people from your hometown that bạn haven’t talked to in a long time. Write a poem that is aimed to address these people for the first time in years.
409. Think of the best independent restaurant bạn have eaten at recently. Write a poem about the flavors and sensations of the meal and drinks.
410. Think about a coworker hoặc colleague bạn find distasteful. Write a poem about how this person saves your life.
411. Write a poem that admits a dark secret of yours.
412. Write a poem from the perspective of a creature that lives in a cave hoặc in the deep sea.
413. Listen to a song bạn really enjoy. Focus on your most yêu thích part of the music. Write a poem about all the sensations, images, feelings, lyrics and other components of that specific part of the song.
414. Imagine yourself living 300 hoặc thêm years ago. bạn still have the same personality and body. Write a poem about yourself and your interactions and with the people of that time.
415. Write a poem about the frustration hoặc stresses a pet must feel. Pets could include household pets, circus animals, zoo động vật and so on.
416. Think about a political issue bạn strongly disagree with. Now write a poem where the aim is to and convince yourself to actually agree with that point.
417. Write a poem about what bạn expect the end of the world might be like.
418. Write a poem that introduces a book bạn dislike. bạn can even use a poem that bạn aren’t particularly happy with. Write a poem introducing that poem to readers.
419. Write a poem about what bạn would do if your ex-boyfriend hoặc ex-girlfriend was transformed into a giant stone animal.
420. Write a poem about an animate and inanimate object falling in tình yêu with each other.
421. Picture a beautiful landscape. Write a poem about that landscape.
422. Take a look at a map. Randomly select a town hoặc city bạn have never been to. Write a poem about what bạn think it might be like visiting that place for the first time.
423. Write a poem from the perspective of someone who is from another culture.
424. Take a topic bạn feel uncomfortable nghề viết văn about. Write a poem about that topic.
425. Write a poem about a historical battle that really reverberates with you.
426. Look up some very rare hoa in at least two different countries. Write a poem that incorporates the features of these plants and their many parts.
427. Pick a topic in the computing sciences that bạn know absolutely nothing about. Do a quick tìm kiếm on it, and spend at least 30 phút trying to understand it from your perspective. Write a poem either about the experience hoặc the topic.
428. Find one of your yêu thích recipes. Write a poem that utilizes some of the steps of that recipe.
429. Write a poem about the way a specific room changes throughout a year. Focus on the objects in the room, lighting, dirt hoặc dust, stains, smells and all the other parts that make a room.
430. Write a poem about some aspect of the grieving hoặc bereavement process. The loss, anger, loneliness, acceptance and moving on are all potential topics.
431. Write a poem about positive transformations One example might be the moment that someone bạn thought was unattractive hoặc plain was suddenly beautiful.
432. Find a cause seeking donations in your community. Imagine this cause is having an auction to raise donations. Write a poem about that auction. Mention if bạn would bid and what bạn would bid.
433. Write a poem designed for the personals section in a newspaper hoặc online listing. Try to incorporate the type of nghề viết văn typically used in a personals section.
434. Write a poem about a piece of clothing bạn would thiết kế if bạn had the resources and poem.
435. Write a poem about the moment when bạn lose a necessary piece that is needed to make something electronic work. Some examples might include losing a charger for a computer hoặc âm nhạc player.
436. Write a poem in which bạn ultimately apologize to someone hoặc something.
437. Try to remember some of the most memorable thi ca readings bạn have attended. Write a poem saying thank bạn to those readings and the readers.
438. Check your local news for any new gallery exhibits in the area. Attend the exhibit and write a poem that discusses some elements of the exhibit.
439. Write a persona poem on someone that is very controversial. Consider nghề viết văn a poem on a serial killer hoặc a famous gang member.
440. Go outside and note at least three different cars on your street. Incorporate the make and model of the car, color and other features of the car into a poem.
441. Write a poem about cloning someone who is recently deceased. Think of various attributes of the tổng thể cloning process such as personality differences, health problems, controversy, and the comparisons of the deceased to the new clone.
442. Write a poem from the perspective of someone who dislikes what bạn do professionally.
443. Write a poem about how bạn find happiness through something that actually makes bạn deeply unhappy.
444. Look at the last 10 poems bạn have written. Pay attention to the ending lines. Use one of those ending lines to begin a new poem.
445. Use the word Pattern in the first line and/or the last line of your poem.
446. Write a poem that begins with bạn waking up.
447. Write a poem that begins with a proclamation. If bạn need a phrase to get your juices going, try “I will”.
448. Write the final line to your poem first, and then write the poem to get to that ending. I am choosing to end my poem with “His hallucinations make him giggle” which others are welcome to use.
449. Pick three words that bạn absolutely tình yêu the sound of and set out to use them in your poem.
450. Use the same (or similar) words in both your first line and last line, but change the order hoặc the meaning of the words from the first line to the last line.
451. Write a poem that involves an animal.
452. Write a danh sách poem about things bạn have done in your life.
453. Use the word “secret” twice in your poem.
454. Use a letter count as a constraint for your poetry, either nghề viết văn a brand new poem hoặc rewriting an old poem to fit the new pattern. bạn can either count the spaces and punctuation between words as letters hoặc count only the actual letters. Keep in mind that bạn don’t have to use the exact same number in every line, bạn can also develop at pattern such as 20-25-20-25.
455. Write hoặc rewrite a greeting card poem so that is has meaning to you, hoặc at least is funny.
456. A Ritual Poem takes a ritual (real hoặc imagined) and brings a sense of meaning and reflection to the ritual it describes. Here are some steps to follow (a ritual poem ritual):
1. Pick an element of life that has hoặc deserves a ritual
2. Decide the result bạn would want the ritual to produce
3. Think of the actions bạn would take to achieve the result
4. Turn the actions into steps hoặc commands
457. Write a poem using Skeltonic Verse.
458. Write a poem about a specific but minor memory bạn have from thêm than five, but less than ten years ago.
459. Write a Tanka. Feel free to write thêm than one if bạn like.
460. Write a definition poem. A definition poem takes a word hoặc a concept and attempts to define it, provide perspective, redefine it, hoặc create a definitive example of it.
461. Write a poem that is set at hoặc near where bạn live.
462. Write a poem in the form of a letter (epistle).
463. Write a poem that begins and ends with three single syllable words.
464. Write a poem that begins with a line of Lời khuyên hoặc instruction, such as don’t give up hoặc take a left at the willow tree.
465. September 21st is the last ngày of summer in the northern hemisphere and the last ngày of winter in the southern hemisphere. With that in mind, write a poem in which the seasons play a role.
466. Write a poem in which a similar hoặc identical phrase is repeated three hoặc thêm times throughout the poem.
467. Write a poem using iambic pentameter. If bạn aren’t familiar with Iambic pentameter, it is discussed in full here.
468. Write a poem that begins with the word “I”.
469. Write a poem as that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.
470. Write a poem about a natural event.
471. Use one of the lists of words above hoặc pick your own morpheme and use it to add adnomination to your poetry.
472. Pick two hoặc three words from your last poem use them as the first three words of this poem.
473. Write a poem that gets shorter with each line.
474. Write a poem about the end of something.
475. Write a poem about something bạn believe.
476. Write a poem that includes at least one mô tả of an object that is six hoặc thêm words long.
477. Write a poem that uses some sort of meter. If bạn want a challenge, attempt a meter bạn haven’t worked with before. For an extra added challenge, try to work in the word belly.
478. Write a Blues Sonnet:
1. Write 5 thematically similar heroic couplets of iambic pentameter.
2. In first four, repeat first line of each couplet, yielding the 14 lines of the sonnet.
3. Then, if desired, modify middle lines, of the stanzas without disturbing rhyme hoặc rhythm to strengthen the stanza and give variety.
4. Get out a blues recording and have fun hát your blues song!
479. Write a poem about an event in your life that bạn have strong feelings about (it doesn’t have to be painful) without stating how bạn feel about the event. If bạn want an extra challenge, end every third line with the letter “R”.
480. Write a poetic parable. Feel free to play with the form. Sometimes it is thêm interesting when the lesson is just a bit absurd.
481. Write about something in your life that bạn do every day. If bạn want an added challenge, make the first and the last lines the same hoặc similar.
482. Write a blank verse poem. Blank verse has meter, but no rhyme. The typical meter for blank verse is iambic pentameter, but bạn can try other meters as well. If bạn want an added challenge, include the word “line”.
483. Write a Pantoum. Feel free to experiment with the form until bạn write something to your own liking. If bạn enjoyed this, try a sestina hoặc villanelle.
484. Write a poem that tells a story. For an added challenge, use a word count. Write four stanzas, each with 30 words.
485. Write a poem as if it were an entry in someone’s journal hoặc diary hoặc even their Twitter account. If bạn want an added challenge, your stanzas to 145 characters so they mirror the limitations of texting.
486. Go outdoors and get some fresh air. Find a comfortable spot and write a poem. If bạn want to try a tanka (or a few) go for it.
487. Write a poem in ten minutes. It should have at least 100 words. For an added challenge, work in the word “speed”.
488. Create your own found poem. If bạn are looking for inspiration, use Google News to find an bài viết to your liking.
489. Write a poem that uses exactly the same number of characters on every line. bạn can pick the length, but once bạn start bạn have to stick to it. For an extra challenge, try nghề viết văn about an event that has happened in the past 24 hour.
490. Write a poem that ends with the word “quiet”.
491. Either use a set of hyponyms as the structure for your poem hoặc write a poem around the phrase, “He was blue, she was a rabbit.”
492. Write a poem that uses something other than traditional end rhyme.
493. Create a poem that uses one of the following word combinations (they don’t have to be in the same line):
1. boot, tune, fool
2. but, feet, knot
3. kit, tap, pock
4. seize, fourth, thighs
494. Write about something bạn can see from the window of your home.
495. Write a poem about a place bạn have been hoặc a journey bạn have taken.
496. Call an old friend and write a poem after the conversation
497. Find an original way to describe a chair and make that the first line of your poem.
498. Write about the first time bạn did something.
499. Write a poem that demonstrates strong emotion without ever stating what that emotion is.
500. Write a poem about a contest, a win, hoặc a loss.
501. Write a poem as if it were a letter to a friend.
502. Include the word right hoặc rights in your poem.
503. Start your poem with a piece of advice.
504. Write a poem about your childhood. Explore an actual event that had some emotional significance to you. Avoid using any mô tả of how bạn felt about the event then hoặc how bạn feel about it now. Instead, try to make the emotion of the event come through in your descriptions of what happened. Feel free to post your poem in the các bình luận hoặc on your own site with a link back to here. This will give other people the opportunity to read your poem.
505. Write about an event in your life that happened within the past week. Take some time to think about the week and look for event that has some emotional meaning for you, but not so much that it would be painful for bạn to write about. Sometimes smaller moments have thêm meaning. Feel free to post your poem in the các bình luận hoặc on your own site with a link back to here. This will give other people the opportunity to read your poem.
506. Find a news hoặc opinion bài viết that was published on the web this week. I recommend using Google News because it can take bạn just about anywhere. Look for a story that has some emotional hoặc philosophical impact on bạn and use that story as the basis for your poem. If bạn post your poem here, be sure to post a link to the original bài viết so we can see the inspiration!
507. Get out of the house and write in a new place. Write about the place bạn choose to go to. Don’t just rely on what bạn see. Describe the smells, the tastes and the sounds if bạn can. Try to give your readers a full picture of the place bạn choose.
508. Write a persona poem that incorporates one of the past two concepts. It should either address a social issue hoặc it should provide a strong sense of place. One great way to do the latter is to write a poem in a public place, and to observe the people around bạn until bạn find someone interesting that bạn can imagine a back-story for.
509. Take at least five phút to meditate in a quiet room free of outside influences before bạn write today’s poem. Try to clear your head of stray thoughts. Once bạn feel like bạn are clear and calm, write your poem. Let the topic be about whatever comes to mind after your meditation. If bạn have never meditated before, simply sit in a chair with your eyes closed and try to relax.
510. Write a danh sách poem that uses a single line for each item on the list. Feel free to choose one of the topics above, hoặc use anything else that comes to mind. As always, post the poem in the các bình luận section if bạn would like to share it.
511. Write an elegy about a person hoặc event that is meaningful to you. bạn don’t necessarily have to approach the most tragic event in your life. Don’t try to take on an event that is still too difficult for bạn to deal with. Look for something that bạn can handle.
512. Write a poem using a specific meter. The meter can be of your own choosing hoặc even your own making, as long as bạn put a pattern into place. As always, feel free to post your poem in the bình luận section of this post.
513. Write a three hoặc thêm stanza poem that uses a metered style for the first two stanzas and a non-metered format for the remaining stanzas. As always, feel free to post your poem in the các bình luận section for others to see.
514. Read a poet bạn don’t like. Try to figure out what they do that upsets bạn and determine whether hoặc not this assessment is fair. Try to think of ways that bạn would approach the same subject matter using your style. Write a poem that addresses some of the same subject / style / tone of the poet bạn dislike but do it in your own style.
515. Write a poem using syllabic verse. bạn can assign length ether bởi line hoặc stanza. If bạn are stuck for a way to begin, start with this two-word ten-syllable line: Incompatible Participation
516. Read a poet bạn don’t like. Try to figure out what they do that upsets bạn and determine whether hoặc not this assessment is fair. Try to think of ways that bạn would approach the same subject matter using your style. Write a poem that addresses some of the same subject / style / tone of the poet bạn dislike but do it in your own style.
517. Today is a two-part assignment. The first part is to think about your method of nghề viết văn poetry. The một giây part is to shake up your process. If bạn have a lot of structure, try loosening up. If bạn write very loosely, try adding some structure to the process. Find a new place to write hoặc use a different tool. The change doesn’t have to be major, but if bạn post your poem, please tell us what bạn changed.
518. Write a poem that uses at least two different forms of repetition. Try to embrace at least one form of repetition that bạn don’t ordinarily use.
519. Write a poem that follows the three rules of the imagists.
1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective hoặc objective.
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
3. As regarding rhythm: to soạn thảo in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.
520. Revisit a trước đó poem, perhaps one bạn especially liked hoặc one bạn had trouble with, and write another poem following those same parameters.
521. Wikipedia’s ngẫu nhiên Button is a great and magical thing. Click it and write about whatever subject comes up.
522. Include the words “formal” and “casual” at some point in your poem.
523. Write a poem that has a variable line length rather than a set meter. Use either enjammed hoặc endstopped lines.
524. Write a poem that begins with a negative image hoặc statement and ends with a positive image hoặc statement.
525. Write a three stanza poem that shows a progression with each stanza. The three stanzas should serve as a beginning, middle and end respectively. It might help to picture the poem as a three act play.
526. Try something that scares bạn (just a little) and then write a poem about it.
527. Write a poem that discusses a real moment in your life without discussing its larger meaning hoặc attempting to lead the reader to a conclusion.
528. Include a verb in every line of your poem.
529. Write a poem that begins and ends with the same word.
530. Write the first draft of your poem in paragraph form and then change it into a free verse poem. Don’t be surprised if bạn have to change lines, words and phrases. That is a part of the process.
531. Look at some old photographs and write about a memory hoặc a thought that they give you.
532. Write a poem that either uses no words longer than five letters hoặc no words shorter than five letters.
533. Write the final line of your poem first, then figure out a way to get there.
534. I feel like ending with something technical but random. Don’t include any word with a single “A” in it, but do include at least one word with two “A”s in it.
535. Write a poem that takes place inside a vehicle (car, truck, train, plane, boat, etc.)
536. Write a poem in which bạn use three different words for the same hoặc a similar color.
537. Write a poem that uses two hoặc thêm different settings / locations.
538. Write a poem that includes at least three different flavors and two odors.
539. Write a poem in which each line has six words and makes a statement hoặc at least expresses a complete thought.
540. Write a poem in which every stanza either begins with a câu hỏi hoặc ends with a question.
541. Write a poem in the form of a joke.
542. Write a poem that takes place at a public gathering such as a meeting, a carnival, a sporting event hoặc a concert.
543. Write a poem about building hoặc creating something bởi hand.
544. Write a poem that involves cutting, chopping hoặc dividing something.
545. Write a poem about having to defend yourself hoặc someone else.
546. Write a poem in which bạn discuss three things that bạn hoặc your persona wants.
547. Write a poem that repeatedly uses numbers.
548. Write a poem that involves a plan.
549. Write a poem that take place at a specific time of the day.
550. Write a poem that involves consequences.
551. Write a poem that takes place in hoặc otherwise involves a classroom.
552. Write a poem about waiting for a specific event.
553. Write a poem about getting Mất tích hoặc losing something.
554. Write a poem about getting hoặc sending a message (postcard, letter, phone call, email)
555. Write a poem that includes something that malfunctions hoặc breaks down.
556. Write a poem about training for something hoặc working towards a distant goal.
557. Write a poem about a person hoặc a place that has several different names (it’s actually quite common).
558. Write a poem in which something gets opened hoặc closed.
559. Write a poem in which something gets faked hoặc simulated.
560. Write a poem about a rivalry.
561. Write a poem about a place that has changed considerably over time (construction, destruction, renovation, disrepair, etc.)
562. Write a poem that involves flirtation.
563. Write a poem that includes a path, a trail, hoặc a map.
564. Write a poem that involves a long-term relationship (love, friendship, family, group, etc.)