A bonny poem

As I think you all know, Bonnie is now in hospice care. I don't think people should have to wait until after they die for people to share their feelings and stories.

I would like for this week's prompt for everyone to write a Bonnie poem. Or, if you don't know her well enough for that, write a bonny poem.

bonny
     Chiefly Scot. pleasing to the eye; handsome; pretty.
     British Dialect.

• (of people) healthy, sweet, and lively.
• (of places) placid; tranquil.
• pleasing; agreeable; good.

For that matter, the Spanish definition of bonita is beautiful, so that's another option.

Indignities

Bonnie didn't want to offer a prompt because she did not write a poem for the last one, but I told her I am sure no one will mind, and would want to hear from her. So her prompt is:

Indignities

I think we could even consider dignity and indignities, give it a bit more breadth.

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!

Moving Day

Okay guys, we are moving this blog to WordPress. Hopefully, it will not be as difficult to comment on as Blogger.  Here is the link for the new blog.

Poetry Prompts

This blog will stay in place as an archive of our old posts. I attempted to import them to Wordpress but all of the line breaks disappeared, making the result rather useless.

Who Am I?

This week's prompt is from Tasha.

Who Am I? Write a poem about yourself, or if you prefer, someone else speaking as who he or she is. You might be looking in a mirror, or not...it's fun to speculate who I am depending...

Being an Art Form

This week's prompt is from Tad:

OK, something a little different. Here's a story I'm intrigued by. A medical secretary in Paris, for the past 20 years, has been asking famous photographers to photograph her, and she has created her own art project -- over a hundred portraits of herself, nude or clothed, by different well-known photographers.

If you want to read more about her, it's here.

But write a poem somehow inspired by her. Imagine being her, or photographing her, or fucking her, or think about what it means to turn yourself into an art form, or just tell her story. I know this is a little weird, but I am a little weird, and sometimes I like to shake things up a little. And although I've told people to fucking stop writing them, this woman who's been photographed over and over might work for a pantoum.

Word choice

This week's prompt is from Linda:

tree, heart, window, pillow, hallucination
music, clock, hill, miniature, animal
flying, running, walking, dancing, jumping

Use 2 words or more from each group of five at least once in a poem.

Lost & Found

I am trying to write a poem for this contest so I thought I'd put the idea out to the group too. I'm listing the requirements of the actual contest, but for our purposes, the poem does NOT HAVE TO BE FOR CHILDREN. It can if you want, and maybe even enter it here.

Lost & Found! 

All kids lose things. Sometimes they're found and sometimes they're not. Tell us about a lost person, place, or thing in poetry.

This contest is your chance to write a poem for children around the theme lost and found. It can be any style of poem.

It can be written in prose*; your poem does not have to rhyme, but if it does, it better be top notch. (Check out this post on rhyme mistakes to avoid.)

Use your imagination to craft a poem aimed at children ages four to eight, suitable for publication in a magazine or children's poetry anthology. Poems must be previously unpublished and no more than 500 words.

Write a poem around the line...

When Annie came to town.... it doesn't have to be your title but the line should be used at least once in your poem. Tell us what happened when Annie came to town....

Favorite Librarians/Teachers

Paul F wants us to write a poem about our favorite Library Ladies or Teacher. Who inspired or inspires you? Introduces you to knew books or ideas?

Knowledge

From Tasha:

My prompt is this: 

Write a poem about what you want to know. What do YOU want to know? Or alternatively, What would you like to know? 

Enjoy, as they say. 

Three women

This week's prompt is from Tad: 

Write a poem that has three women in it.

(Oh god, what is Paul F. going to do with this one? LOL)

Treasures

This week's prompt is from Linda, with apologies for being late:

All that is valuable is not gold or money, not even diamonds or rubies, Some of the most treasured things on earth have no monetary value other than life itself. What is that treasure for you? What is your ultimate treasure in the universe that has no trade value but you would give everything rather than do without it.

Lessons From Math Class

Write about a math concept, such as “you cannot divide by zero” or never-ending irrational numbers. 

(Taken from "101 Poetry Writing Prompts," https://thinkwritten.com/poetry-prompts/)

Grandma's Kitchen

Describe your grandma's kitchen. What made it special to you? What did you talk about around the table? Politics? Religion? or family day to day events. Take us into your grandma's kitchen.

Pirates and treasures

Paul Fowler gives us this prompt. This can be any type of pirate including financial wall street pirates or even the traditional pirate.