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Doors & Passageways: Dancers and Dreams Poetry Prompts

By T.S. Poetry 53 Comments

Ballet Dancers at the Door Poetry Poems

Doors and passageways poetry prompts. Who will you be, what will you do, to get that door to your dreams open? Put it in a poem.

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Photo Prompts: DOORS & PASSAGEWAYS PHOTO PLAY 2

By Julie Matkin 17 Comments

Photo Play Photo Prompts Doors

Poetry and photo prompts come together in our Photo Play feature. Check out the entries for Doors and Passageways.

Filed Under: Blog, Door Photos, Doors Poems, Photo Play, Photography prompts, poetry prompt, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Poetry and Photo Prompts: Doors & Passageways Photo Play

By Julie Matkin 46 Comments

Looking out into the sunlight

Join our Photo Play opportunity to explore our monthly poetry themes in a visual way (or write a poem, if you prefer!). First up: Doors & Passageways.

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Top 10 Poems with Make-or-Break Titles

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

top ten poem titles

Your poem title sets the tone. We show how changing a title can create an entirely different poem. Plus 9 poems with make-or-break titles!

Filed Under: Blog, Funny Poems, Haiku Poems, Humorous Poems, love poems, Poems about poetry, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Tattoo Poems

Top 10 Funny Poems

By Will Willingham 30 Comments

Cute Girl Laughing Top 10 Funny Poems

What makes for funny poems? Maybe the same things that make any writing funny. Enjoy a laugh and these ten funny poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Cat Poems, Children's Poetry, Dog Poems, Funniest Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry teaching resources, Short Poems

Ten Great Writing Playlists & Poetry Prompts

By T.S. Poetry 3 Comments

top ten poetry playlists

Do you have a favorite playlist you listen to while you write poetry? We’re featuring ten of our favorite themed writing playlists.

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Inspired: 8 ways to write poems you can love

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

inspired poetry prompt book

A simple ebook from T.S. Poetry Press might be all you need to get yourself writing a little poetry. If all else fails, cheesecake.

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Stories of the Bees 2: Swan Poems

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Bee Poetry tweetspeakpoetry.com Omer Unlu

From bees, our recent Twitter poetry party began to transition to swans.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Swan Poems, Twitter poetry

Stories of the Bees: Bee Poems

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Bee Poetry tweetspeakpoetry.com Omer Unlu

At the Twitter poetry party, we got into bees and moons and ants and rosaries and all manner of things

Filed Under: Bee Poems, poetry, Twitter poetry

Poems of Complication 2

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Following are eight poems from last Tuesday’s poetry jam on twitter, ranging from plainness and fresh strawberries to a celebration of punctuation. Poems of Complication 2 By @mdgoodyear, @llbarkat, @PoemsPrayers, @mxings, @togetherforgood, @cascheller, @mmerubies, @MonicaSharman, @DancinButterfly, @thegypsymama, @TchrEric and @KathleenOverby. Not to mention @shrinkingcamel. Edited by @glynn_poet. Plainness I saw two plain women today. One […]

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Poems of Complication 1

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Below are the first group of poems coming from our poetry jam on Twitter this past Tuesday. The prompts, courtesy of @mdgoodyear, came from lines from the following: “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket” by Robert Lowell; “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley; “Ode to the Confederate Dead” by Allen Tate; “Ode on […]

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Poems from the Cupboard – 2

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Some strange things can happen when you start reading labels in on packages in the kitchen, which were our prompts for the poetry jam last Tuesday on Twitter. Here are eight poems that resulted, and more are coming. Poems from the Cupboard  – 2 By @llbarkat, @doallas, @mxings, @PoemsPrayers, @TchrEric, @togetherforgood, @monicasharman,  @mmerubies, @KathleenOverby, @lauraboggess and […]

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Poems from the Cupboard

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

For our poetry jam on Twitter this past Tuesday, @tspoetry provided a series of prompts taken from packaging found in the cabinet. Our instructions were to pick up words from the prompts and each other, and make poems. Below is the first of several posts, this one containing six poems. Poems from the Cupboard By […]

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Poems from the House of Memory – 1

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

From wisteria to butterflies, rubies to gardenia, the house of love and life calls in these poems.

Filed Under: Butterfly Poems, Humanity Poems, love poems, poetry

Poems on Poetry

By Glynn Young 13 Comments

Where do poems hide? Dogwood sweet, shaded near my feet, reaching dark-limbed to serve up day. They also hide until people die, kicking at the dirt.

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The Animals Come to a Party: Poems

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Hippos, camels, dragon flies, cake? It must be an animal poems party.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Cake Poems, Camel Poems, love poems, poetry, Short Poems, Surreal Poems, Twitter poetry

The Walled Garden of Spices and Herbs Poems

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Cinnamon, clove, chili, thyme. Exotic poems with herbs and spices.

Filed Under: Cento Poems, Grief Poems, Herb Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Surreal Poems, Twitter poetry

Poems of the Ruby Moon

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Surreal poems on work, love, and the ruby moon.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Cento Poems, color poems, Dog Poems, Dream Poems, love poems, love poetry, Moon poems, Poems, poetry, Red Poems, Short Poems, Spring Poems, Surreal Poems, work poems

The Orchards of Desire Poems

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Surreal poems with plum sheets, blue pearls, and skirts burning jasmine.

Filed Under: Cento Poems, love poems, love poetry, Plum Poems, Poems, Short Poems, Surreal Poems, Twitter poetry

Writing Toward Joy Workshop—Starts Monday!

By Megan Willome 18 Comments

Colorful Pots

Writing toward Joy is like writing toward North; we’ll never reach North, nor will we ever reach Joy, but when we write ourselves in that direction, a bit of Joy happens. Join us for this inspiring workshop!

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