OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of the Future: Imagine you are at a Halloween party in the future. What are you afraid of before you go? Imagine it’s the best Halloween party you could ever go to and nothing goes wrong, everything is the best Halloween party fun you can imagine. Write a poem describingContinue reading “Oct. 29 Prompts: Halloween Party”
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Oct. 28 Prompts: What Makes a Villain
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of the Bad Guys: Everyone believes they are the hero of their own story, so how do people who do such evil things still believe they are the good guys? For this poem, try to get into the heads of those you see as pure evil. How do they justifyContinue reading “Oct. 28 Prompts: What Makes a Villain”
Oct. 27 Prompts: Deep in the Forest
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Forest for the Trees: It’s easy to get caught up in details and lose the big picture, or be so focused on the big picture that the details get lost. Think about the opening of a film: the camera flying over a big city, then zooming into a location then toContinue reading “Oct. 27 Prompts: Deep in the Forest”
Oct. 26 Prompts: Haunted
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of Not Being Good Enough: Is one of your poems from earlier this month haunting you? Choose one of your poems from the beginning of the month and revise it. Choose the best line and start a new poem with it, or start with the last line and write fromContinue reading “Oct. 26 Prompts: Haunted”
Oct. 25 Prompts: Superstitions
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of the World: Describe what you see out the window. Now, go outside and describe what you see looking in through that window. Write a poem about the similarities and differences. What did you notice first? What most surprised you? The Mirror Sestet might work well with this prompt. WritoberContinue reading “Oct. 25 Prompts: Superstitions”
Oct. 24 Prompts: Pulsing Beneath the Surface
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of Danger: Think of a warning you received from your parents as a child. Start your poem with “My mother says/said” or “My father says/said” and in the poem try to capture their fears behind the warnings. For this poem you may want to try a Cascade. Here’s a cascadeContinue reading “Oct. 24 Prompts: Pulsing Beneath the Surface”
Oct. 23 Prompts: Music of the Night
I am so glad you are still on these challenges with me. This last week, I started writing full flashes, and cutting more surprising cuts for my photographs. And I finished my pocket quilt in its first rendition. So much creative energy heading toward Halloween. OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears A few weeks ago I readContinue reading “Oct. 23 Prompts: Music of the Night”
Oct. 22 Prompts: Creepy Crawlies
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Arachnophobia: It was kind of funny during the second week of ModPo during office hours, I found that all the poems were about spiders. For today’s poem, write a response to one of the poems below. You can reply to it in any way you would like. Do you agree withContinue reading “Oct. 22 Prompts: Creepy Crawlies”
Oct. 21 Prompts: Hiding in the Swamp
The Swamp by Maria L. Berg 2018 OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of Science Run Amok: Write today’s poem as a mad scientist. Your poem may be the formula for your greatest discovery or invention. Your poem may be your manifesto, or your frustrations with limitation, or just the rantings of a mad man. IContinue reading “Oct. 21 Prompts: Hiding in the Swamp”
Oct. 20 Prompts: In a Thick Fog
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Lost Version One: Write a poem about a time you’ve been lost or felt lost. This could be a fun day to try another spoken poem in a different space. To create a spoken poem, record yourself speaking the poem as it comes to you then copy down what you said,Continue reading “Oct. 20 Prompts: In a Thick Fog”
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