Tough Going

I'm not sure how many of you know Tad has been going through chemo and radiation for throat cancer. This is his week for a prompt, and although he wants to stay in the rotation, he said that it's "still tough going." So I asked him if we could just use "tough going" for a prompt. So, that's it for this week. Tough going.

The Many Kinds of Love

From Tasha:

The Many Kinds of Love There are three Latin words for love, and 96 in another language I read about, Poems about how you love, what you love, how you see love, and who you love, just to name a few thoughts...A valentine to love,

Plastic World and Freedom

Yes, Paul Fowler has given us two prompts again. Write about one or the other or if you want to really challenge yourself write a poem that includes both prompts.

NOTE from Victoria, the Keeper of the Blog. Please note the prompt list with dates above as well as the new "Rules of the Blog." As we get more members of the blog, it becomes necessary to lay out a few rules. Not many. Thanks.

Poetry about poetry

From Paul B:

Poetry, anything you want to write about poetry, what it means to you, how you feel about it, anything at all

It's Alive!

From Linda:

Write a poem about something that makes you feel alive.

Reality Salon Sale!!

I almost didn't do this because Bonnie did a "use these words" prompt last week. But I've been waiting since my last prompt to do this, so I said, "What the hell." This screenshot if from a game Bonnie and I play called Puzzly Words.  You get 16 letters and have to make 3 words. You compete against other people online. Sometimes I get the urge to rearrange my words because they sound more like a poem. So I thought I'd screenshot one that worked and use it as a prompt.

So for this week, choose at least THREE words from among the 11 here (because of one duplicate) in your poem. Here's the list in case you can't see the picture:

• reality
• salon
• sale
• solitary
• lean
• trolley 
• saline
• aas
• lastly
• raise
• alone

Earth Wind Fire and Rain

Write a poem encompassing those four words. It does not have to be about the earth, the wind, etc, but must have those four words in the poem.