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Day Five Poetry Challenge

06 Wednesday Apr 2016

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april poetry challenge, palinisms, poem, Poetry, poetry prompts, trumpisms, writing assignments, writing prompts

Yesterday Rob, who I hadn’t seen in a week, returned from California. This combined with teaching, working out, and other responsibilities pushed writing my poem for the day out of the way. This is what it’s like to be a writer.We have to fight to make time to write. We have to commit to the act of writing. We have to find solitude and erase from our minds the other voices and pressures of our day. Yesterday, I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to spend time with Rob. So, I may not have written a poem, but I did get to eat Mexican food and watch baseball with my husband who I had been missing for 7 days.

So, today I will be posting two prompts. If you made up your own yesterday, you can choose one. Otherwise, let’s see if we can write two today!

Palin and Trump Mash Up

In light of yesterday’s primary in Wisconsin, our fifth prompt will be political in nature…sort of. Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are both known for their wacky words and phrasing. Write a poem that mashes some of them together. The links below will take you to a quote generator for each of them, as well as videos and lists of some of the crazier things they’ve said. A lot of what Palin says is so musical, even if it is nonsensical. You can think of this as a nonsense poem, or you can revise to make the poem more sensical.

Sarah Palin Quote Generator

Wisconsin April 1st

Palin’s Endorsement of Trump

Sarah Palin Quotes

Trump Quote Generator

199 Tump Quotes

 

 

 

Day Three Poetry Challenge

03 Sunday Apr 2016

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april poetry challenge, baseball poetry, opening day 2016, poem, poem about baseball, Poetry, poetry prompts, Prompt, Writing, writing assignments, writing prompts

Play ball! As baseball players take to their fields for the first games of the 2016 season, it is only fitting that today we write a poem about baseball. Do you have a baseball memory? Did you used to play as a kid? Do you not like the game (tsk, tsk)? Explore your relationship to the game in today’s poem and see what happens. For inspiration, here is a poem by John Hodgen:

Forgiving Buckner

The world is always rolling between our legs.
It comes for us, dribbler, slow roller,
humming its goat song, easy as pie.

We spit in our gloves, bend our stiff knees,
keep it in front of us, our fathers' advice,
but we miss it every time, its physic, its science,
and it bleeds on through, blue streak, heart sore,
to the four-leaf clovers deep in right field.

The runner scores, knight in white armor,
the others out leaping, bumptious, gladhanding,
your net come up empty, Jonah again.
Even the dance of the dead won't come near you,
heart in your throat, holy of holies,
the oh of your mouth as the stone rolls away,
as if it had come from before you were born
to roll past your life to the end of the world,
till the world comes around again, gathering steam,
heading right for us again and again,
faith of our fathers, world without end.

—John Hodgen

Day Two Prompt

03 Sunday Apr 2016

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April poetry, poem, Poetry, poetry exercise, poetry month, Prompt, Writing, writing assignments, writing prompt

Write a poem in the persona of a person who is the first to do something. For example, the first person to build a boat; to start a fire; to brew coffee; to walk on the moon; to look into a microscope.

Write on!

April Poetry Month

01 Friday Apr 2016

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April poetry, national poetry month, Poetry, poetry challenge, poetry prompts, Prompt, writing assignments, writing exercises, writing prompts

We at the Billow will be celebrating National Poetry Month by attempting to complete the April Poetry Challenge–write a poem a day for the month! For the next 30 days we will share prompts with you in the hope that maybe you, too, will find your way to the page.

Day 1: Write a poem about a thunderstorm without using the words rain, thunder, or lightning.

Write on!

Michelle & Rob

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