Order from Chaos

This week's prompt is from Paul Fowler:

Making order from Chaos, Apparently, his life is like that and right now more than ever. (Must be those cats.) Though he does seem to thrives on chaos. Let's see what everyone comes up with.

Felines

This week's prompt is from Tasha:

My prompt this week is to write about cats, kittens or any feline you choose. It could be an animal companion or an imaginary cat story, a cat you have known or one you ould enjoy knowing. Have fun. Tasha

Demi-Pantoum

This week's prompt is from Tad (with obsessive bullets by Victoria...)

Here's a variation on a popular form, created by poet Allison Joseph. She calls it the demi-pantoum.

It consists of:

• 4-line stanzas, 
• rhymed ABAB. 
• The third line of one stanza becomes the first line of the next stanza, but that's the only repetition. So it has something of the feeling of a pantoum, but it's a little looser. 
• The first line of the poem is used somewhere in the final stanza. 

So that's this week's challenge. Write a demi-pantoum.

If anyone needs an example, Tad will send one.

Favorite Place and Time

This week's prompt is from Linda:

I want you to take your mind to your favorite place or room and put your most comfortable piece of furniture in there so you can sit down if you wish. Now, put yourself at your favorite age. Then, pick the one “thing” on earth that gave you so much pleasure that you were happy! Write a poem about this place, time and thing. And why you are happy?

License Poem

We seemed have let the April Poem A Day prompts slide by us this month. I've chosen one of their prompts for this week, but for anyone interested, here is the blog where ALL of the prompts are listed.

Here is the one I picked for this week:

For today’s prompt, write a license poem. There are many different licenses available to people. Fishing license, driver’s license, license to plate, license to kill, and marriage license. Poem doesn’t have to be about the license, but it could mention a license, happen at a licensing office, or well, use your poetic license.

simplify simplify - Thoreau

When Thoreau writes, "simplify, simplify" in the second paragraph, he is recommending that people do as much as possible to reduce their lives down to only the necessities. Society today tells us that nothing is ever good enough and that more is better; Thoreau is telling us to challenge those standards.

Tell us what you do to simply for your life... but to make it not too simple write it in the form of an acrostic.

An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first, last or other letters in a line spell out a particular word or phrase. The most common and simple form of an acrostic poem is where the first letters of each line spell out the word or phrase. Be sure to capitalize the letters defining your acrostic so we can see it... example

A juicy fruit that
Pleases the eaters
Palette with crunch. A
Luxuriant treat for
Everyone to enjoy

Media Lies

Paul Fowler wants us to write a poem about our favorite media lies. Have fun!