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Doors & Passageways: Playlist & Poetry Prompt

By L.L. Barkat 33 Comments

Red Door Poems Red Door Poetry

Listen to our new Doors & Passageways playlist, then write a doors or passageways poem, including a line of the lyrics if you like.

Filed Under: Blog, Doors Poems, love poems, love poetry, Night Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, Train poems, writing prompts

Bottled & Canned: A Secret Poetry Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

Clear Glass Bottle Poetry

Think of a secret you want or need to preserve. Put it in a bottle or can. Will it go in easily? This is poetry. We don’t need to know the actual secret.

Filed Under: Blog, Bottled & Canned, Courage Poems, Hope Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

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.

Filed Under: Blog, Music, poetry

Bottled & Canned: A Keeping Poetry Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 14 Comments

Bottle Poetry

Have you ever found a bottle worth keeping? Have you ever collected a whole colorful line? Put it in poetry.

Filed Under: Animal Poems, Blog, Bottled & Canned, Dog Poems, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Bottled & Canned: Surprise Poetry Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 17 Comments

Dolls in Cans Poetry

Have you ever opened a can, only to find something unexpected? Now’s your chance.

Filed Under: Blog, Bottled & Canned, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Bottles & Cans: A Playlist and Poetry Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 15 Comments

bottled and canned poetry prompt

Can you put bottles and cans in your poems? Join us for our new Bottled & Canned theme, and a brand new playlist and poetry prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, Bottled & Canned, Music, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Rock Song Poems, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Rock ‘n Roll Poetry Prompt: Instrumental

By T.S. Poetry 9 Comments

Rock Song Poetry Acres Wild Jethro Tull

Rock music contains poetry, as do the instruments and voices that speak it. Jethro Tull’s “Acres Wild” shows us the way.

Filed Under: Blog, Hope Poems, love poems, love poetry, Music, Poems, poetry, Rock Song Poems, writing prompts

Rock ‘n Roll Poetry Prompt: Rock in Place

By T.S. Poetry 17 Comments

Rock Music Poetry Asian Girl

Rock ‘n roll poetry prompt takes you back to the car, the basement, or even the closet.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, poetry teaching resources, Rock Song Poems, Short Poems, writing prompts

Rock ‘n Roll Poetry Prompt: Blue Suede Shoes

By T.S. Poetry 10 Comments

black shoes poetry

What kinda shoes rock you? Put ’em in a poem, and rock us too.

Filed Under: Blog, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Rock and Roll, Rock Song Poems, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Rock ‘n Roll Lyrics: Poetry Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 17 Comments

Rock Song Poetry

Get your lyrics on and write a rock ‘n roll poem. Read one too, with an SRV.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Rock Song Poems, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Tweetspeak Rocks (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 23 Comments

We’re rocking this month at Tweetspeak! Come kick off this month’s “Rock and Roll” theme with a killer playlist and poetry prompt. Are you ready to rock?

Filed Under: Blog, Mirror Poems, Music, poetry, writing prompts

The Mirror, The Storyteller (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 11 Comments

In this week’s poetry prompt, we explore the stories reflected in the mirror. What story does your mirror tell?

Filed Under: Blog, Mirror Poems, poetry, writing prompts

Mirror, Mirage (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 24 Comments

Can you tell the difference between mirror and mirage? Do you follow false reflections or true? This week, we’re exploring the poetry in mirages.

Filed Under: Blog, Mirror Poems, Poems, writing prompts

Realities Reflected (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 17 Comments

The slanted, off-kilter fun-house bedroom emptied into a narrow a corridor, a hallway with mirrored walls. The lights were bright, fluorescent lit, and gave the general impression of being trapped inside that Bruce Lee classic, Enter the Dragon.  My three boys and I stopped, noticed the hundreds of us-es that seemed to stretch around slight reflective […]

Filed Under: Blog, Mirror Poems, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Mirror, Mirror (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 32 Comments

Seth Haines starts out our June Mirror, Mirror theme with a musical reflection — our June poetry prompt playlist of mirror tunes.

Filed Under: Blog, Music, Poems, writing prompts

32 Flavors And Then Some (a Phoenix Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 8 Comments

Feathers

The phoenix is a classic theme in literature, poetry, and music. This week Seth Haines has a poetry prompt with the phoenix and Ani Difranco’s 32 Flavors.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Blog, Poems, Swans Swallows Phoenix, Themed Writing Projects

The Opalescent Swallow (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 1 Comment

opalescent swallow poetry

Join Seth Haines for a new poetry prompt on the swallow, from this month’s Swan, Swallow, the Phoenix theme.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Blog, poetry, Swans Swallows Phoenix, writing prompts

Honk if You Were a Teenage Swan (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 4 Comments

Write a coming-of-age poem inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling” in this week’s poetry prompt from Seth Haines.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, Fairytales, poetry

Swans, Swallows, and the Phoenix (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 8 Comments

Seth Haines kicks off the month of May with a new poetic playlist on our Swans, Swallow, Phoenix theme, and a brand new poetry prompt to boot.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Blog, Poems, poetry, Swans Swallows Phoenix, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Night at the Classroom (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 7 Comments

Making Grendel from paper mâché? Perhaps you’d rather just write a creature poem. Seth Haines has a new poetry prompt from literature’s greatest creatures.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, writer's group resources, writing prompts

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