Sometimes a project begins well and despite that great beginning, it goes unfinished. This happens when I run out of ideas for that story, which leads to me loosing enthusiasm. I set that project aside and work on something else. Maybe it’s a short story or a poem, but it’s somethin...
‘At school, you might be told off if you’re daydreaming. Or you might be told you have to write ahaikuor anacrostic poem, which can sometimes be hard. ‘Butwhen you’re writing poetry at home, you never have to worry about being right or wrong. You can write about things that i...
According to Wikipedia, “a prose poem appears as prose, reads as poetry, yet lacks line breaks associated with poetry but uses…fragmentation, compression, repetition and rhyme and…poetry symbols, metaphor, and figures of speech. Prose poetry…is essentially a hybrid or fusion of [prose and p...
Podcasts: You don’t have to park in front of a book or computer to discover poetry. With podcasts, you can listen to poetry while cleaning, exercising, and commuting. Look for a “Poem a Day” podcast. My personal favorite was the now-defunctIndiefeed Performance Poetry, which is archive...
23. Recount being caught in a spring shower. 24. Write a haiku about watching a baby chick trailing its mother. 25. What image comes to mind when you think of “new start”? Write about it. 26. Write about the worst part of spring. (I'm looking at the rivers of pollen on my st...
They can mingle in a single poem, but the poem will usually lean more one way than the other. Some writers prefer either the lyric or the narrative mode; some work equally well in both. Don’t assume that, just because you’re a fiction writer, you wouldn’t make a good lyric poet...
For a brother like you, whose heart is so real. Happy birthday! A Haiku of Happiness: Joy on your birthday, Brother, you light up my world, Love in every line. Happy birthday! A Limerick for Laughter: There once was a brother so cool, ...
In each poem, however, Tolson, who was ethnically both African-American and native American, continued to opine about race, and about the difficulty of squaring the actual experiences of American minorities with the idea of equality promised by the American experiment. True, the form of Harlem ...