Animate: Lions & Lambs Poetry Prompt

Animate is a poetry prompt that focuses on speaking as if we are a particular object. This time, we’re speaking as diametrically different Lions & Lambs.

Prompt Guidelines and Options

1. Speak in the first person.

2. Be specific. Think nouns instead of adjectives.

3. Consider where you—a lion or a lamb—are located, or where you came from, or where you are going. Or, speak as if you have a special desire or concern: maybe you are hungry, missing something, afraid of a sight or sound, in love with another lion or lamb that is like you or not like you. Be creative. Any type of situation is fair game.

4. Consider doing a little research about the object you will speak as: its history, associated words, music, art, sculpture, architecture, fashion, science, and so on. Look for unusual details, so you can speak convincingly and intriguingly about yourself.

That’s it! We look forward to hearing you speak poetically, from the viewpoint of the contrasting and beautiful—lions & lambs.

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Featured Poem

Here is a recent poem from Laura we enjoyed:

Hand-me-down Jacket

Hand-me down jacket
cinnamon brown
embroidered placket
all the way down
thin pearly buttons
crushed velvet skin
makes me feel
like a mandolin

—by Laura Lynn Brown

Photo by Edge Earth. Creative Commons via Flickr.

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Heather Eure

Heather Eure has served as the Poetry Editor for the late Burnside Collective and Special Projects Editor for us at Tweetspeak Poetry. Her poems have appeared at Every Day Poems. Her wit has appeared just about everywhere she's ever showed up, and if you're lucky you were there to hear it.

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