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Cheese Poetry: The Cheesiest Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 9 Comments

The Cheesiest

Join us while we explore the funny and sometimes cringe-worthy moments of our past. It promises to be the cheesiest poetry prompt yet.

Filed Under: Blog, Cheese Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Cheese Poetry: Read Your Labels Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 2 Comments

Read Your Labels

Raid the refrigerator and read your food labels with creativity in mind. Join us for our cheese themed poetry prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, Cheese Poems, Eating and Drinking Poems, Food Poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Say Cheese Poetry Prompt and a Playlist

By Heather Eure 53 Comments

Say Cheese

It’s time for a new cheese poetry prompt and a playlist. We’ve got unique songs and a prompt that’s sure to bring on the cheese.

Filed Under: Blog, Eating and Drinking Poems, Food Poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompts

Ode Poetry: Ode to My Coffee Shop

By Heather Eure 32 Comments

Ode to My Coffee Shop

There’s comfort in the familiarity of our favorite coffee or tea shop. Pull up a cozy chair, pour a cup, and write some ode poetry with us. Join us!

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee and Tea, Coffee Poems, Ode Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Tea Poems, writing prompts

Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

top ten posts at tweetspeak poetry

What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so).

Filed Under: Blog, Music, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Photo Prompts: An Ode to Home Photo Play

By Heather Eure 32 Comments

An Ode to Home Photo Prompt

There is something about home that bestows a sense of peace, comfort, and belonging. Home sustains us. Walk through the door after a long day and inhale. It smells familiar, like a favorite sweater. Come on over to our house for Photo Prompts: An Ode to Home. It’s Photo Play day!

Filed Under: Blog, Ode Poems, Photo Play, Photography prompts, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Poetry and Photo Prompts: Spanish Lace Photo Play

By Heather Eure 42 Comments

Lace photo prompts

Photographs can have a poetic voice. With photography as in poetry, sometimes what isn’t said is just as important as what is. Join us for our latest Photo Play prompt, finding lace in nature, and letting it tell us what isn’t said.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Lace Poems, Photo Play, Photography prompts, Spanish Lace, Themed Writing Projects

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.

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee Poems, Doors Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, Writing Tips

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.

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

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

Night Poetry: Stopping by Woods and Promises

By L.L. Barkat 39 Comments

Night poems Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost

Night poetry can be the poetry of promise. In the darkness, we can focus on what is most pressing, we can dream, we can make promises to ourselves or others

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

Night Poetry: Acquainted with the Night

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

Night Poetry Robert Frost Acquainted with the Night Image

Night poetry can be the poetry of acquaintance. With the light narrowed, we pull in close to things that are near.

Filed Under: Blog, Courage Poems, Humorous Poems, Moon poems, Night Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Night Poetry: Emily Dickinson’s Symbol Challenge

By T.S. Poetry 11 Comments

Night Poetry Night Poems Moonlit Sky

Can night poetry have sunshine? If you’re Emily Dickinson, you might find a way to mix dark and light by speaking symbolically.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Poems, Night Poems, poetry teaching resources, Short Poems, Themed Writing Projects, Villanelles, writing prompts

Night Poetry: Playlist and Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 34 Comments

Night Poetry Night Poems

Night poetry easily lends itself to being love poetry. Like Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty.”

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

Cat Poetry: Ancient Cat Poems

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

Ancient Cat Poetry Black Cat

Cats have a long history that can be plumbed and poeticized—from Egypt to China, Greece to Japan.

Filed Under: Animal Poems, Blog, Cat Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Cat Poetry: Funny Poems by Cats

By T.S. Poetry 11 Comments

Funny Poems Cat Poems Cute Cat

Cat poems are sometimes funny poems. Especially if the cat is the one who wrote them! Come now, be the cat.

Filed Under: Blog, Cat Poems, Dog Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Tattoo Poetry: Jealousy Between the Inks

By T.S. Poetry 2 Comments

Rose Tattoo Poetry

Be a tattoo that has had to share the body that bears it. How do you feel about the other tattoos?

Filed Under: Blog, Courage Poems, Hope Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Tattoo Poems, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Tattoo Poetry: Ode on a Grecian Urn Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 5 Comments

Tattoo poetry

Tattoo poetry is permanent poetry—captured by the body that bears it. There’s a sense in which it is locked in time and form, much the way the painted Greek lovers were perpetually locked to the vase in “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”

Filed Under: Adam and Eve Poems, Blog, love poems, love poetry, Ode Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Tattoo Poetry: The Ink’s Journey Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

Tattoo Poetry Seize the Day

Tattoo poetry is *ink transforming*—telling a story or covering one, or giving a person something to live into that is yet untold.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Tattoo Poems, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

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