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napowrimo #10: celebrate!
by the Read Write Poem Staff Read Write Poem member Pamela Sayers says, “I live in Mexico, and one of the things I love most about this country is that people here celebrate their family and friends to...
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napowrimo #11: the thing you didn’t choose
by the Read Write Poem Staff Read Write Poem member Angie Werren invites us to write about the choice we didn’t make: Everyday we make choices. Some are small: English breakfast or Lipton? the highway...
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napowrimo #12: secret codes
by the Read Write Poem Staff We are more than one-third through NaPoWriMo. If you feel like you’ve started to make things up (two parts desperation, one part coffee grinds), then Carolee Sherwood’s...
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napowrimo #13: smoke a dubie
by the Read Write Poem Staff Today is Day 13, also known as your lucky day. Sarah J. Sloat has a wonderful prompt for you; it’s bound to get you going! She says: I’m partial to the tried-and-true...
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napowrimo #14: you want me to write a what?
by the Read Write Poem Staff Nicole Nicholson has a big challenge for us on Day 14: Write a cleave poem. What’s a cleave poem, you ask? It’s three poems in one. The whole idea works something like this...
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napowrimo #15: carrying a tune
by the Read Write Poem Staff Do you have the courage to attempt today’s prompt, written by Read Write Poem member Dale? If you haven’t practiced being silly in a while, this is the perfect assignment...
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napowrimo #16: what’s that smell?
by the Read Write Poem Staff Read Write Poem member Julie Jordan Scott launches her NaPoWriMo prompt with a quote from Diane Ackerman: “Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines...
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napowrimo #17: something elemental
by the Read Write Poem Staff Look at you! Writing past the half-way mark! Today, Neil Reid invites us to keep going by writing about the elements: Let’s be elemental. Fire, earth, water, wind. They...
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napowrimo #18: meow!
by the Read Write Poem Staff “I’m cursed. I’m a tiger,” says Read Write Poem member Irene. She’s talking about the Year of the Tiger, and it’s the inspiration for her NaPoWriMo prompt: The tiger is a...
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napowrimo #19: light bulb moments
by the Read Write Poem Staff For today’s NaPoWriMo prompt, Read Write Poem member Rallentanda introduces a word that’s new to many of us: éclat. Online dictionaries (like this one) list several...
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napowrimo #20: the hero poem
by the Read Write Poem Staff As a child, Jessica GC says she had two heroes: Wonder Woman and her mother. “To me, they were one and the same,” says Jessica. “Both had long dark hair. Both were...
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napowrimo #21: perfectly flawed
by the Read Write Poem Staff Today’s prompt is from Read Write Poem member Kristen McHenry: “In ancient times, Persian rug makers were deeply religious and believed that only God could make something...
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napowrimo #22: a wordle!
by the Read Write Poem Staff Today’s prompt is from Read Write Poem member Catherine who provided the contents for today’s prompt, a Wordle. Use one, or use them, all in the poem you write today....
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napowrimo #23: unlikely couples
by the Read Write Poem Staff Read Write Poem member Sage Cohen has a terrific suggestion for today’s poems: Write a poem in which you combine a speaker and an event that normally don’t go together...
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napowrimo #24: find a phrase
by the Read Write Poem Staff With words like codswallop, it’s clear that Read Write Poem member Marie Gauthier means business! Now is not the time to let your NaPoWriMo work ethic slack. Clichés,...
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napowrimo #25: first things first
by the Read Write Poem Staff It’s Day #25, and you may be getting tired. In Joseph Harker’s prompt today, let others do the heavy lifting of inspiration. Keep an ear out for the first sentence (or even...
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napowrimo #26: get scrappy
by the Read Write Poem Staff It’s getting late in the month, and finishing NaPoWriMo is going to take every bit of resourcefulness you have. Jill Crammond Wickham reminds us about the bits and pieces...
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napowrimo #27: let someone else take the lead
by the Read Write Poem Staff Carolee Sherwood wonders if you’re running on fumes like she is. She hopes her prompt takes some of the heat off and points your exhausted brain down the path where your...
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napowrimo #28: intuition
by the Read Write Poem Staff Today’s prompt is provided by member, Julie Jordan Scott. Arthur Koestler wrote: “The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.” Akin...
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napowrimo #29: front page news
by the Read Write Poem Staff You’re almost there, and inspiration for your next to the last NaPoWriMo poem is at your fingertips! D.S. Apfelbaum recalls what William Carlos Williams once wrote, “It is...
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