It has been quite the week here at . There are over 200 poems in the gallery, and more pour in by the hour. As for you, my fellow poets: if you've been writing at least one poem per day, you now have eight or more newly minted and supremely __________ (insert your adjective of choice here) pieces in your poetic stash (be it in a dA gallery or a moleskin notebook in the back of your sock drawer).
If you're like me, you haven't quite reached eight poems. Perhaps you're saving up your genius for next weekend or another nugget of free time. Maybe you're swimming in a lake of WIPs or using this month to hit a smaller personal goal. I myself have been trying to whip a villanelle into shape for the past few days, but have only succeeded in reducing it to a collection of cliches and forced rhymes. The less said on the subject, the better.
But however the villanelle turns out, I can say that in this past week, I have had a heck of a lot more fun with poetry than I've ever had before. I've had a number of epiphanies, most of the obvious kind (reading poetry really does help, my poetic voice is of the newborn poet variety, etc.)
So what about you? What have you discovered about your poetry, your voice, your habits? What are you discovering about poetry in general? And most importantly, ARE YOU READY FOR WEEK TWO?!?!
Prompts for April 9-15angelStained, estella-gaffigan ('s wonderful contributers), and I have discussed a new way to present the daily prompt: starting today, we've decided to present you with a week's worth of prompts in one post.
Write a dialogue between two speakers. Use at least one poetic technique to distinguish between the two (for example, one speaker might use alliteration while the other relies on end rhyme). From Book of Kells: Take a 1-2 page poem from a book and re-type it backwards—from the very last word in the poem all the way to the very first, keeping the lines the same lengths as they are in the book. Use this as the starting point of a poem, picking out the word formations that are particularly interesting to you. From Poets & Writers: Write a poem that explores how you were named and the meaning of your name. Include at least one bold lie. From Book of Kells: Take fairy tale and rewrite it from the viewpoint of another character. For example, use the wolf to tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood. From The Journal: Write a poem in three parts about three different people and their interaction with an item that is the same. The object can be passed between them, or it can be the "same" possession and not the "actual" object the other people have. From Poets & Writers: Think back to yourself ten years ago—where you lived, what your preoccupations were, who your relationships were with, who you were. Write a letter in the form of a poem to yourself then from yourself now. Freewrite for three to five minutes. Then cut the word count of your freewrite in half (if you wrote 100 words, delete fifty of them). Create a poem from what remains.And here's an extra one, to make up for yesterday:
Write a poem in praise of yourself, 
Have a great week, everyone.
