POETRY

POETRY PROMPT D A Y 1

Write 4 stanzas about a monumental moment in your life. It must be original, avoid clichés, and each stanza needs 3-4 lines.

POETRY PROMPT D AY 2

Write a six stanza poem about childhood. Each stanza must contain 3-4 lines, and there must be a repeated theme or motif throughout the entire poem.

My Papa’s Waltz

The whiskey on your breath   Could make a small boy dizzy;   But I hung on like death:   Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans   Slid from the kitchen shelf;   My mother’s countenance   Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist   Was battered on one knuckle;   At every step you missedMy right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head   With a palm caked hard by dirt,   Then waltzed me off to bed   Still clinging to your shirt.

“So avoid using the word very because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”

Poetry Prompt Day 3 Brainstorm a list of words in three degrees

• LikeAdmire Adore Regard• Pretty ________ ______ ______• Dislike ________ _______ ______• Weaken ________ ________ ________• Excite Titillate Captivate

Enrapture • Criticize _______ _______ _______• Disagree ________ _______ _______• Remove Banish Vanquish Smite • Enjoy ________ _______ _______

POETRY PROMPT D AY 4

Choose ONE of the following prompts:1) Write a poem about one or all of the four seasons. (Some ideas for brainstorming: What does the season look, feel, smell like? What memories do you associate with that season?).

2) Write a poem using three of the following words: expensive, lampshade, bruise, convincing.

3)Write a poem that is dark, moody, or foreboding.

POETRY PROMPT D AY 5

 Choose ONE of the following prompts:

1)Write a poem about yourself in which nothing is true.

2)Write a poem in which you create a metaphor for your life (your life is like a garden, painting, cruise ship, layered cake etc.)

3)Write a poem focusing on yourself as an individual.

POETRY PROMPT D AY 6

Choose one of the poems you previously started and add to it, revise, and perfect this poem. Rewrite the full, new poem on your Day 6 piece of paper.