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Day 5: Prayer for or Ode to Food

2019-04-05 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Abundance, Creative Writing Exercises, Food, Gratitude, Poetry Prompt

Today’s writing prompt is based on the poem Prayer for the Pompadour Looking Up From My Plate Write a prayer for or an ode to a food item you are about to eat or already ate today. Will you (or did you) eat the whole item? Why or why not? If you aren’t going to […]

Prayer for the Pompadour Looking up from My Plate

2019-04-05 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Food, Gratitude, Poems

Prayer for the Pompadour Looking up from My Plate God, I feel bad. He died for me and I could only eat half of him. —Marcus Goodyear, from Barbies at Communion T. S. Poetry Press, 2010   Want the whole 30 poems, 30 prompts series in one convenient place? You can get that in Earth […]

Day 4: Age a Tree

2019-04-04 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Creative Writing Exercises, Earth as Metaphor, Poetry Prompt, Trees

A poetry prompt that ages a tree through memory. Based on the poem “Back,” which places a poet in relation to a tree from childhood.

Back

2019-04-04 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Poems, Trees

Using the image of a tree at its center, “Back” places the poet’s life in relation to part of our world. Not just any tree poem, this one creates an interplay between nature and memory and personal directions.

The earth’s economy

2019-04-03 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Abundance, Agriculture, Food, Gardens, Poems

“Just when I thought the day had nothing left to give,” says the poet. And then the earth’s economy gives, beginning with an impossibly cool and beautiful garden cucumber.

Day 3: Just when I thought the day

2019-04-03 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Abundance, Creative Writing Exercises, Gratitude, Hope, Poetry Prompt

Ready for a little creative writing exercise? Try out this gratitude poetry prompt, based on the poem “The earth’s economy.”

Twirl by Callie Feyen

Where the Wild Things Are

2019-03-26 By • Filed Under: Articles, Earth as Metaphor, Gardens, Hope, In Our Lives, Reflections, Secret Places, Trees

A walk to a small secret place becomes a chance to climb—literally and metaphorically.

After Reading About the Iceberg Waterfalls

2019-03-08 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Articles, Icebergs, Love for Others, Poems

A poem about the disappearance of Arctic Summer Ice, “After Reading About the Iceberg Waterfalls” connects time to someone we love.

Day 2: A ____ Dawn of Time

2019-03-08 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Climate, Creative Writing Exercises, Icebergs, Love for Others, Poetry Prompt

In today’s poem, the poet measures time by the age of her eldest daughter, saying that the Arctic summer ice will be gone, causing the sea to rise significantly, “in a daughter’s dawn of time.”

Day 1: Begin

2019-03-01 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Creative Writing Exercises, Design, Getting Started, Haiku, Momentum, Nature Prompt, Poetry Prompt

Today’s poetry writing prompt is based on the poem Find. Focusing on a single natural item or two was (and still is) the simple basis for a longstanding genre of poetry: haiku. Imagine that! A whole genre that relies on attentiveness to our natural surroundings. The haiku understands that it doesn’t “take much” to start […]

Find

2019-03-01 By • Filed Under: 30 Days 30 Poems Challenge, Getting Started, Momentum, Moon, Poems, Trees

Find a single
tree, find
the moon…

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