Today’s prompt: to find a news article, and to write a poem using words from the article. [From article in Prince George Citizen. P. 8. April 28th] Post -traumatic stress disorder, A highly-stigmatized condition, Suicides involving soldiers, Of the Afghanistan mission.   They are taught to hide the pain, Told to soldier on, A counsellor had taught him, How…

Prompt: to write a poem from a featured photograph http://www.reenhead.com/baseball.JPG A youthful ball-player named Brett From Langley BC was beget He joined the Blue Jays Hitting balls quite a ways Much to Boston Red Sox’s  regret!        

Prompt: a curtal sonnet is shorter than a normal sonnet. It has a first stanza of six lines,followed by a second stanza of four, and then closes with a half-line. Oh how I’d love to have a sleep-filled night, For rested  mind;  blithe spirit; muscle strength, A sleep of seven hours, or even more in length, Oh how I’d…

Prompt: to use “anaphora” (repetitive wording) such as in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech “Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this…

Today’s prompt: I challenge you to write a poem that features walls, bricks, stones, arches, or the like.   A RED BRICK FIREPLACE Polished red bricks complement the rustic decor of my friend’s living room. Bricks purchased during that  fire sale of remnants, from the Lejac Residential School before they tore it down. When memories were purged but never erased of incidents occurring in that…

Todays prompt was to attempt a translation of a poem written in a language of which I am unfamiliar. The following verses were written by my Facebook friend Yet Klare. The language is Dutch. My translation is on the right. Yet posted a photo of a bird on her blog site  (That clued me in somewhat…)  vandaag een specht…

Prompt: today, “I challenge you to write a poem for children” For Taylor, my 3-year-old great-grandson, upon the birth of baby Xander.   Today was a day that was like no other Cause somebody came and he was my brother He’s pink and he’s squishy,  wrinkled and round, Before he was born he made not a sound   But today when…

Prompt for the day- “today I challenge you to write a poem in the voice of a member of your family.” Hello there, my name is Isaac, I’m five-years-old and I’m a prize act, I love to shoot my plastic gun, And with my brothers, we  have fun!   I pretend when I’m outside, A lion comes and…

“Lazarus Jewel Box” is the name of a type of clam shell. Today’s prompt  inspired me to write about the loss of  a few items from an earlier time. I once had a shiny grey jewellry box It was filigreed all over with a windmill on top My dad was from Holland  so that may have been…

Today’s prompt was to compose  a ruba’i :  a four-line stanza, with a rhyme scheme of AABA We had eight children, my husband and me He fathered five and I mothered three We had our own when most others had grown And grandchildren were entering the scene.