Please note that these prompts will be used in the কবিতা contests. The function of this প্রবন্ধ is to provide prompts ahead of time. The কবিতা contests will go in the same order as this list. Please do not জমা করুন works based on these prompts to the প্রবন্ধ section, to avoid possible thievery. However, আপনি are আরো than welcome to print out অথবা save this list.
1. Write a poem about one অথবা all of the four seasons. (Some ideas for brainstorming: What does the season look, feel, smell like? What memories do আপনি associate with that season?).
2. Write a poem using three of the following words: expensive, lampshade, bruise, convincing.
3. Write a poem about something that happened to someone আপনি know. Write about it as if it had happened to you.
4. Write a poem about your shadow. (Some ideas for brainstorming: How does it change when আপনি move? What does it look like in different kinds of light, in different situations? What would happen if আপনি হারিয়ে গেছে it? Does it have a secret life?)
5. Write a poem using all of the following words: smooth, soothe, work, dark.
6. Write a poem based on a dream আপনি had. Try to reproduce the sensations of the dream.
7. Write a poem based on your belief about life after death... অথবা about what আপনি WISH আপনি believed.
8. Write a poem using all of the following words: snake, honey, thaw.
9. Write a poem from the perspective of a character in a fairy tale.
10. Write a poem using all of the following words: moth, angle, cloth, tangle.
11. Write a poem that tells the story of a specific প্রণয় affair অথবা marriage.
12. Write a poem in the form of a message অথবা letter to your future self.
13. Write a poem about the color red অথবা another color. (Some ideas for brainstorming: How does the color make আপনি feel? What things do আপনি associate with that color?)
14. Write a poem about a place that frightens আপনি অথবা a place where আপনি feel happy. Try to recreate the feeling of the place.
15. Write a poem using all of the following words: exquisite, visit, glisten.
16. Write a poem about something অথবা someone আপনি lost.
17. Write a poem using all of the following words: dim, hinge, dingy.
18. Write a poem in the form of a lullaby.
19. Write a poem about yourself in which nothing is true.
20. Night-time
21. A particular color
22. Being underwater
23. A person whose life you're curious about
24. Your mother's perfume
25. Falling asleep অথবা waking up
26. Growing older
27. The feeling of getting হারিয়ে গেছে in a book
28. How to know if you're in love
29. A bad dream
30. A ghost
31. Your city, town, অথবা neighborhood
32. An important life choice you've made
33. Spring, summer, fall, অথবা winter
34. Something most people see as ugly but which আপনি see as beautiful
35. Jealousy
36. Becoming a parent
37. An event that changed you
38. A place আপনি visited -- how আপনি imagined it beforehand, and what it was actually like
39. The ocean
40. Forgetting
41. The speed of light
42. A voodoo doll
43. Reflections on a window
44. A newspaper headline
45. Your greatest fear
46. Your grandmother's hands
47. A particular toy আপনি had as a child
48. Being invisible
49. A time আপনি felt homesick
50. Having an affair, অথবা discovering your partner is having one
51. Birthdays
52. A পছন্দ খাবার and a specific memory of eating it
53. An imaginary city
54. Driving with the radio on
55. Life in an aquarium
56. Dancing
57. Walking with your eyes closed
58. What a computer might daydream about
59. Time travel
60. Brothers অথবা sisters
61. Your job, অথবা a job you've had
62. Weddings
63. Leaving home
64. Camping
65. A zoo
66. A historical event from the perspective of someone who saw it firsthand (You will have to do some research for this).
67. Holding your breath
68. Intimacy and privacy
69. A time আপনি were tempted to do something আপনি feel is wrong
70. Physical attraction to someone
71. A superstition আপনি have
72. Someone আপনি admire
73. Write about the taste of: an egg, an orange, medicine, cinnamon
74. Write about the smell of: burning food, melting snow, the ocean, your grandparents' home, the inside of a bus, pavement after the rain
75. Write about the sound of: a radio changing channels, a dog howling, a football অথবা baseball game, your parents talking in another room
76. Write about the sight of: lit windows in a house when you're standing outside at night, someone আপনি প্রণয় when he অথবা she doesn't know you're watching, a dying plant, shadows on snow
77. Write about the feeling of: ঘাস under bare feet, a really bad kiss, the headrush when আপনি stand up too fast, sore muscles, falling asleep in the back আসন of a moving car.
78. a dessert, a memory, and someone in your family
79. dancing, a pitch-black room, and the smell of lilacs
80. a balloon, smoke, and a keyhole
81. a secret box, an ice cube tray, and a velvet ribbon
82. a betrayal, soap, and a plane ticket
83. Rain, snow, অথবা a storm
84. An animal আপনি think is beautiful অথবা strange
85. Your parents অথবা children
86. How a চুম্বন feels
87. The house where আপনি were born
88. A smell that brings back memories
89. Being a teenager, becoming an adult, middle age, old age
90. Feeling lonely
91. The moon
92. Getting lost
93. Marriage অথবা divorce
94. An imaginary friend
95. Life in the future
96. The hottest, coldest, অথবা most exhausted আপনি have ever felt
97. Having a fever
98. A new version of a fairy-tale
99. The shapes আপনি see in clouds
100. A letter
101. A recipe
102. A horoscope
103. A fragment from an unusual dictionary
104. A prayer
105. A shopping list
106. A magic spell.
107. One of your parents
108. Your child (real অথবা imagined)
109. A historical figure (You will have to do research for this one.)
110. A very old person
111. An athlete who has just হারিয়ে গেছে the big game
112. The most popular/unpopular kid from your school
113. An inanimate object in your home.
114. Listen to a piece of সঙ্গীত and write about the প্রতিমূর্তি that it brings into your mind.
115. People-watch, eavesdrop, and write about your observations and imaginings.
116. Sit in a park and close your eyes. Notice all of the sounds and smells. Write about them afterward.
117. Keep a notebook পরবর্তি to your বিছানা and write down your dreams at night to turn them into poems later.
118. Make a তালিকা of words আপনি think are unusual, then try to use them in poems.
119. Watch an animal and write a poem about what it looks like and what it does.
120. Smell different spices in your রান্নাঘর and write about the memories that they inspire.
121. Look through old family photographs and choose some to write poems about.
122. Go on a "field trip" -- a museum, the zoo, a greenhouse -- to hunt for কবিতা ideas.
123. Get inspiration from বই on an area of science অথবা history that interests you.
124. Three wishes
125. Traveling to an unknown place
126. Getting a haircut
127. A scientific fact (real অথবা invented)
128. An insect that got into your home
129. The sound of a specific language
130. Death
131. The number 3
132. The ocean
133. Missing someone
134. Something that makes আপনি angry
135. The feeling of writing, why আপনি want to be a writer
136. The ups and downs of love
137. The view out your window
138. City lights at night
139. A particular work of art
140. Having a superpower
141. Being in an airplane
142. Playing a sport
143. A shadow
144. A person transformed into an animal
145. Daydream
146. Cry
147. চুম্বন well
148. Find happiness
149. Peel a peach
150. "Silky," "gigantic," and "puzzle."
151. "Leaf," "accelerating," and "sticky."
152. "Skin," "drastic," and "dusty."
153. "Interrupt," "nutmeg," and "crystalline."
154. "Exacting," "oxygen," and "delicate."
155. "Reptilian," "arched," and "honey."
156. First Kiss
157. Chained Angel
158. Empty Heart
159. Sirens Call
160. Bloodline
161. Soldiers Guilt
162. Mothers Guilt
163. Wilting Flower
164. Time Stopped
165. Hidden Away
166. Icy Tears
167. Dream Lover
168. Never Again
169. Slave Girl
170. হারিয়ে গেছে In a Dream
171. Tithe
172. Dream Catcher
173. Empty Coffin
174. হারিয়ে গেছে Days
175. The দিন I Meet You
176. দেবদূত Touch
177. Destiny’s Call
178. New Day
179. Black Rose
180. Say My Name
181. Stop My Heart
182. Midnight Hour
183. Don’t Leave
184. Love’s Spell
185. Old House
186. Shallow Grave
187. Broken Chair
188. Dancing Girl
189. Seductive Smile
190. Left Behind
191. Road kill
192. Great white hunter
193. Evil Smile
194. দেবদূত Tears
195. The moon glowed as they danced…
196. Can আপনি hear me call…?
197. The look in your eye makes me shiver in…
198. She was a thing of beauty and of light…
199. The আগুন is low and the curtains drawn…
200. Filled with sunshine and laughter…
201. The eagle let out a lonesome cry…
202. I burn for আপনি in the darkness…
203. Draw me near and whisper gently…
204. Tell me it isn’t true…
205. The sign stood battered and worn
206. It breathed in the darkness পরবর্তি to me…
207. If the devil cried,
208. If the world ended tomorrow...
209. The eyes glowed in the darkness…
210. The waves rolled out across the sands…
211. The ghostly figure shimmered in the light…
212. The path winds forever forward…
213. Beware the charming smile in the night…
214. হারিয়ে গেছে in a dream…
215. The night was thick with romance…
216. Never parted
217. Stranger in the dark
218. Broken carriage
219. Forbidden meeting
220. প্রণয় spell
221. Cursed
222. Tears of the vampire
223. A time to die
224. A dreams kiss
225. Midnight vow
226. Hunted
227. Broken sword
228. হৃদয় of a killer
229. Living statue
230. Secret
231. Blood Slave
232. Painted glass
233. Hidden from sight
234. Shattered mirror
235. Forbidden meeting
236. Grandma
237. Job interview
238. Murdering heart
239. Secrets
240. Confusion
241. Blood tears
242. Liar
243. Reunion
244. Road kill
245. Blindness
246. Burning cross
247. Book
248. The wind
249. Poisoned flower
250. Wild
251. Mob
252. Innocent touch
253. Madness
254. Ancient
255. Beware
256. Blood pact
257. বড়দিন ornament
258. Frozen
259. Broken promise
260. Telephone call
261. Road rage
262. Crossroads
263. Trapped
264. Witch’s familiar
265. Birth
266. Crying ghost
267. Garbage bin
268. Car accident
269. Floating body
270. Late to the party
271. Cursed town
272. False accusation
273. Death’s Visit
274. Woman scorned
275. Key
276. Grandma’s secret
277. Obsession
278. Devil’s tango
279. Broken dice
280. Miles to go
281. Overrun
282. Lost
283. Dead heart
284. Forbidden laughter
285. Old tree
286. Blue eyes
287. Vengeance
288. Dead bugs
289. Returning
290. Sound Off
Sounds are filled with meaning. Poets can use sounds not only to create wonderful and complex worlds through words, but also to create a rhythm and flow that gives life to the wind, the footsteps, and closing doors around us. Sit quietly somewhere with colorful and unique sounds: an art museum, a lonely riverbank, অথবা a bustling subway station. Write a poem about the sounds আপনি hear. Focus on the কবিতা and সঙ্গীত of the sounds, and how the sounds put everything else—nature, life, and death—into context.
291. Disappointment
কবিতা has very powerful redemptive and healing capacities. The mere process of লেখা and পাঠ করা কবিতা forces us to connect with life on a meaningful, meditative level. কবিতা requires a deliberate and calm contemplation that creates spaces for forgiveness, understanding, and self-awareness. Write a poem about a সাম্প্রতিক disappointment in your life. Be honest about your feelings. The power of your কবিতা begins with your truths.
292. Focus on Family
Like snowflakes, every family is unique. From quirky aunts and greedy uncles to gracious moms and despicable cousins, every family is peculiar in some meaningful way. Write a poem about your family. Focus on the people who create the love, the pain, and the dynamics that define your family. Be honest. Be courageous. Be open.
293. Travel Poetry
It is estimated that 43.4 million Americans will travel fifty অথবা আরো miles this Thanksgiving weekend. Travel is so often inspiring because it mixes a sensory experience with the opportunity for a prolonged period of contemplation. Write a poem about a সাম্প্রতিক trip আপনি took. Carefully select your words to evoke the sights and sounds that accompanied the journey of your inner thoughts and feelings.
294. Changes
Our lives are constantly changing as we navigate what we can and can’t control. Every দিন there is a new beginning and ending—in big and small ways. We fall in love. We lose an eyelash. Write a poem about how your life is changing. Be specific. Change is complex and emotional on any level because it reminds us of our humanity—and of our mortality. Get writing.
295. হারিয়ে গেছে and Found
We all lose things in life that are uniquely special to us: a wool scarf knitted দ্বারা a beloved friend, a letter opener that belonged to a grandfather, a stuffed animal won for a daughter at a state fair. Life moves অগ্রবর্তী and so do we. Time crowds old memories with new ones. We misplace the things we love. We lose them. Or, somehow, they just leave us. Write a poem about an object that has disappeared from your life. Use the power of memory and emotion to give it new life, rendering it no longer lost, but found.
296. Guest Poetry
The holiday season is here, which means আপনি will soon be a guest at a work party, gathering of friends, অথবা family-oriented celebration. This is the season for poets. Begin your “Thank You” poems now. Celebrate what companionship means to আপনি and express your gratitude for the honor of being invited. Make your poems personal and sincere. (Consider attaching each poem to a nice bottle of wine and personally hand it to your host.)
297. Our Years of Fear
হ্যালোইন week is here. Write a poem about something আপনি feared as a child. As adults we fear loneliness, intellectual and financial ruin, and—of course—death. However, children experience the world and their own humanity differently; yet, their fears are just as scary, valid, and profound. Begin the poem as an innocent child. End the poem as a mature adult.
298. Poetic Appreciation
কবিতা is an act of appreciation. With our increasingly busy schedules, we lose our ability to appreciate. Poets must resist the modern temptation to overlook what holds meaning in our lives. Identify something in your surroundings—a rusted নিড়ানি, hoe draped in মাকড়সা webs, an unfashionable dress abandoned দ্বারা time, a wine cork buried in a drawer of unpaid bills—and write a poem that appreciates these lonely items.
299. Relationships
Life is about relationships. As with everything in life, all relationships end for various reasons. Think about a relationship that আপনি valued that has ended—a friend, a lover, a family member. Write a poem that encapsulates your sense of loss and appreciation and how this particular person impacted your life. The power of কবিতা transcends everything that ends.
300. Crash Poetry
Collisions spark creativity. রঙ collide to form new colors. Opposing ideas create an inspired argument. Friction makes fire. Write a poem that combines two unrelated entities in your life: Imagine your birth certificate under a decaying woodpile, your mother-in-law clenching spark plugs, a bluebird গান গাওয়া in your freezer. Push your imagination. The words will follow.
301. কবিতা for Humanity
The human race, দ্বারা nature, is flawed. Deep within our DNA is the capacity for violence, hatred, and deceit. Choose an aspect of human nature that disturbs you. Write a poem describing this ugly and flawed characteristic of human nature. Write a সেকেন্ড poem about how we, the human race, can fix it.
302. কবিতা Appreciation
Revisit one of your পছন্দ poems দ্বারা another poet. What appeals to আপনি about this particular poem—the structure, the sound, the imagery, the subject matter? Write a poem dedicated to this poet and poem. প্রদর্শনী your appreciation দ্বারা instilling those same respected qualities in your own writing.
303. Train Changers
People come in and out of our lives like passengers on a train. Some stay for much of our journey. Others get on and off, quickly disappearing into their own travels. Write a poem about someone who became part of your life, but left the train. Who were they? Why do আপনি miss them? What happened? Focus on tone, voice, and imagery.
304. Reaching Out
লেখা কবিতা can be a lonely endeavor. পাঠ করা poetry, however, can introduce us to people and worlds we’ve never experienced. Use the power of কবিতা to help someone who is lonely. The woman resting her head on the steering wheel at a long red light. The old man with a soggy coaster at the end of the bar. The adolescent kid hiding in the school bathroom. Write a poem for them, from you.
305. Change of Words
The end of summer means the beginning of autumn. This is a time of change. Write a poem about the changes occurring in your life. Choose powerful verbs. Focus on the feelings of expectation, fear, and relief that come with change. Use vivid imagery. It is during change that we are often the most alive.
306. রান্নাঘর Table
The center of our families, our homes, and our most treasured conversations occur at the রান্নাঘর table. We discuss the vibrant color of sautéed asparagus, the deep laugh of a deceased grandfather, অথবা sit quietly, alone, worrying about our children at 3am. Write a poem about your রান্নাঘর table, and the food, voices, and thoughts it has experienced over the years.
307. Window Words
Windows, like frames for ছবি and paintings, provide a context to the vast world around us. Sit দ্বারা your পছন্দ window and write a poem about life beyond the glass: diaphanous oak leaves spangled in sunlight, fatigued men hanging from a garbage truck, chirping songbirds flitting through summer rain, a hunched elderly woman who feels forgotten. Remember: This is your window as defined দ্বারা your life. Give yourself thirty minutes.
308. খাবার for Thought
Think of your পছন্দ meal. Write a poem about the recipe, describing how each ingredient and every action contributes to the final whole. Evoke the five senses—from the sound of a whisk to the smell of paprika. Explore what this meal means to আপনি and why. Write vibrantly, unless gruel is your thing.
309. Insecurity
লেখা কবিতা is an act of empowerment. Sit quietly at your desk. Think about what you’re most insecure about in life: being a good parent, making enough money, not being able to প্রণয় fully. Write a poem about how আপনি plan to overcome that insecurity.
310. Remembering the August Ahead
Time is what we call the brutal miracle that makes us grow old. Certain months of time remind us of falling in love, burying a loved one, অথবা moving into a new house. This week, as we say goodbye to July, reflect on what August has meant to your life. Begin your poem with your childhood. Then describe how August has changed আপনি and your perception of the world.
311. মিনিট to Explain
কবিতা harnesses the power of metaphors and similes to reach a part of humanity that is inaccessible to all other forms of communication. Think about someone আপনি love. Spend 15 মিনিট making a তালিকা of their notable attributes—both flattering and incriminating. Describe those attributes using simple metaphors and similes to explain the complex feelings this person evokes within you.
312. Your Other Life
Poetry, like life, is about making decisions. Write a poem to the person আপনি may have become had আপনি made an important life decision differently. Remember, this version of আপনি is also vulnerable to the whims of an indifferent universe, so you’re merely making an educated guess as to your doppelgänger’s outcome. Craft your poem with respect. You’re লেখা to you.
313. Inch দ্বারা Inch
Choose an inch of মহাকাশ anywhere around you: the sole of your hiking boot, the rusted headlight of an abandoned car, that weathered and broken thumb your grandfather used to pry open the back fence. Write about that inch. As poets we often become overwhelmed দ্বারা the big picture. We seek to conquer love, injustice, and the meaning of meaning. Take a step back. Focus the scope of your poetry. লেখা about a single drop of rain can tell us the most about the sky above.
314. Life, friends, is boring
"For the কবিতা reader...there are certain emotions আপনি are allowed to feel—sadness, love—but this is such a miserable choice of all the emotions one feels," writes Craig Raine in the English Review. "One feels anger, boredom, chilliness—quite strong emotions, but they don't get much of a run in poetry, and I think they should." Write a poem about anger অথবা boredom অথবা any other "nonpoetic" emotion. If আপনি have trouble getting started, try using the first line of John Berryman's devastating "Dream Song 14": "Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so."
315. ফুলেরডালি of Evil
On June 25, 1857, French poet Charles Baudelaire published his book Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), which led to his conviction on charges of blasphemy and obscenity. Here's a sample: "Huddled, teeming, like gut-worms দ্বারা the million, a clutch of Demons make whoopee in our brain and, when we breath, Death floods our lungs, an invisible torrent, muffled in groans." Get good and dark: Read a bit from ফুলেরডালি of Evil then write a short poem. Unleash the gut-worms!
316. How's the Weather?
"I know Midwesterners are accused of talking too much about the weather, but that criticism must surely come from people who don't have weather like ours," novelist David Rhodes once wrote to his editor at Milkweed Editions, Ben Barnhart. "These last few weeks have been filled with the bright, indolent humidity of summer, offset দ্বারা sudden, tyrannical darkness and booming threats of অতিপ্রাকৃতিক violence. Not mentioning such revolutionary experiences would be inhuman." Go Midwestern and write a poem about today's weather. And if you're interested, read "After the Flood: A পরিলেখ of David Rhodes," from the September/October 2008 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
317. Taming the Unruly
In a পরিলেখ of Natasha Trethewey in the September/October 2012 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, contributing editor Kevin Nance উদ্ধৃতি the poet laureate (who was elected to a সেকেন্ড term on Monday) about her use of poetic form. "I never set out to write in a particular form, but usually something in the early drafting process suggests to me the possibility of a form I might follow that might help take the poem in a better direction than I might have sent it without following that impulse,” Trethewey says. “I find that it helps me with poems that have seemed unruly for some reason—maybe the story is too big, অথবা the emotion of it is overwhelming for me, and the form helps bring shape to it." Choose a poem that has been giving আপনি trouble—an unruly poem of your own—and try to rewrite it as a sonnet, a villanelle, a pantoum, অথবা another form. (Consult the Academy of American Poets website for help with poetic forms.)
318. Dark Rooms
In their introduction to My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected কবিতা of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় Press, 2008), Kevin Killian and Peter Gizzi write about Spicer's idea of the serial poem, "a book-length progression of short poems that function together as a single movement." Robin Blaser described the form as "a dark house, where আপনি throw a light on in a room, then turn it off, and enter the পরবর্তি room, where আপনি turn on a light, and so on." As Spicer's কবিতা "moves from dark room to dark room," Killian and Gizzi write, "each flash of illumination leaves an afterimage on the imagination, and the lines of the poem become artifacts of an ongoing engagement with larger forces." Read some of Jack Spicer's long poems, including The Holy Grail and Billy the Kid. Consider throwing a light on some rooms of your own.
319. May Swenson
In honor of the centennial anniversary of the birth of May Swenson, on May 28, read some poems দ্বারা this award-winning poet (consult the Academy of American Poets website for a bibliography), then write a poem with her work in mind. Remember, this is a poet who, four months before her death on December 28, 1989, wrote, "The best কবিতা has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct আরো than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem."
320. Overheard
কবিতা is all around you. Find a public place—a train station, a park bench, a রাস্তা corner, a coffee shop, a bookstore, the line at the Department of Motor Vehicles—and listen to the people around you. Choose one quote from a stranger and use it as the first and last line of a new poem.
321. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Print অথবা write out a handful of unfinished poems you’ve had difficulty revising. Cut out each line and mix them up. Rearrange the lines to make a new poem. Consider using one of the lines as the title.
322. Achilles' Heel
Pick an iconic figure with a famous weak spot (Superman and kryptonite, Achilles and his heel, Samson and his hair, the Wicked Witch of the West and water). Write a letter from the প্রতীকী to the weakness অথবা from the weakness to the icon. Is it hate mail? A প্রণয় poem? A blackmail note? Advice?
323. পছন্দ Line
Choose a পছন্দ অথবা compelling line from another writer's poem, and write your own line with same number of stressed syllables and same vowel sounds. Use this line as the start of a new poem.
324. Write a Terza Rima
Write a Terza Rima, a poem of three-line stanzas in which the end-word of the সেকেন্ড line in the first tercet establishes the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet and so on. The poem can have as many stanzas as you’d like, and the rhyme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. continues through the final stanza.
325. A Poem for You
Write a poem of fourteen lines. Instead of using the first person (I), use only the সেকেন্ড person (you).
326. Turn It Over
Choose a word অথবা phrase আপনি find yourself saying often (e.g. like, totally, hate, really, kind of) and write a poem using it as much as possible, turning it over and over, repositioning it, extending it, playing with its uses and the parts of speech into which it can be shaped.
327. Just Say It
Choose a poem—a classic work অথবা something you've newly discovered—and memorize it. As আপনি do so, note the rhythms, sounds, and structure that help আপনি remember it. To test your memory, and in honor of National কবিতা Month, consider reciting it to a friend in person, leaving a recording of it on a friend's voicemail, অথবা sending an audio file of it to one অথবা আরো বন্ধু via e-mail.
328. Make a Collage
Make a collage inspired দ্বারা a working draft of one of your poems, using প্রতিমূর্তি from books, photographs, magazines, newspapers, and drawings. আপনি may incorporate words as well. Let the transformation of your poem into another medium inform a revision of the poem on the page.
329. Record the Dailies
Collect phrases and words that আপনি see throughout the দিন today. Arrange them on the page, using line breaks where they seem to naturally fall. Next, above the lines you’ve recorded, write words and phrases that are somehow related to those on the page, such as synomyms, antonyms, অথবা words that sound অথবা look similar. Rewrite what you’ve recorded replacing the new words with the old. Use this as the first draft of a poem and continue revising it into a finished draft.
330. Look and Listen
Today there are fifteen lines of কবিতা that will present themselves to আপনি in various ways. Some will be visual, some will be spoken. Look and listen carefully. Take the time to record them. Then refine them and use them to craft a poem.
331. Imaginary Friend
Write a poem in the form of a letter to an imaginary friend in which আপনি ask them for help that begins, Dear Friend. Keeping the person অথবা creature অথবা entity you’re লেখা to in mind, include details and প্রতিমূর্তি that reveal your imaginary friend’s characteristics as আপনি craft your entreaty.
332. The Form It Takes
As poet Ted Kooser writes in The কবিতা প্রথমপাতা Repair Manual: Practical উপদেশ for Beginning Poets (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), “When it comes to the form your poem takes, আপনি can determine it as আপনি write....As আপনি work on your poem, try to see what shape the কবিতা wants to assume.” Following Kooser’s advice, write a draft of a poem and analyze its structure. How many lines does it have? How many stanzas? How many stressed syllables per line? Look for a dominant pattern in what you’ve written and revise the poem to fit that pattern consistently.
333. Write a Villanelle
Choose two পছন্দ lines from a working draft of a poem that needs revision. Write a villanelle, using those lines for the refrains. See the Academy of American Poets' website for আরো about the villanelle form, a poem of nineteen lines made up of five stanzas with three lines each.
334. Text Me
Send a line of কবিতা to a friend via text message অথবা e-mail and ask her to রচনা a line in response. Collaborate on drafting a poem in this way, building it line দ্বারা line until আপনি both agree that it's reached its end. Using the final product as a draft, revise the poem and have your friend do the same. Compare your final drafts.
335. Clip Art
Using scissors, cut up one of your poems that needs revision into its lines অথবা parts of lines. Rearrange these clippings in various combinations and create a new draft. Write a revision of your poem based on this new draft.
336. After Robert Frost
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of American poet Robert Frost. To honor this day, read Frost's poem "Stopping দ্বারা Woods on a Snowy Evening" on the Academy of American Poets' website. Analyze the poem's structure, and write a poem with the same rhyme scheme and number of lines.
337. Playing With Definitions
Choose any word from the dictionary and read its definitions. Write a poem using only the language of these definitions. Try repeating them in different combinations and using line break to create unexpected phrases. Experiment with how far আপনি can push the limits of the language you're working with. Use the word you've chosen as the শিরোনাম of the poem.
338. Powers of Observation
Look out your window অথবা observe your surroundings and make a তালিকা of ten images. Choose the three that আপনি find most compelling and freewrite about them, exploring any memories অথবা associations they elicit. Put your freewriting exercise aside, and draft a poem that incorporates at least five of the প্রতিমূর্তি from your list.
339. This Is Just to Say
Think about something that আপনি did অথবা ব্যক্ত to someone that আপনি regret. Write a poem of apology, comprising five four-line stanzas, with the same number of stressed syllables in each line. Avoid sentimentality. Rely on images, rhythm, and structure to convey your regret.
340. Shakespearean Sonnet
Start the বছর off with one of Shakespeare’s পছন্দ forms. Write a sonnet, a poem comprising fourteen lines that incorporates the following rhyme scheme: a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. (For example, the words at the end of the first and third lines rhyme, etc.) Before আপনি begin, flip through any book and select seven words at random. Use these words, অথবা variations of them, in the poem.
341. Make a List
Write a poem that is a তালিকা of people, places, and/or things that আপনি long for.
342. কবিতা Prompt - Write an Anaphora poem. An Anaphora is "the repetition of a word অথবা expression several times within a clause অথবা within a paragraph". In কবিতা the repetition of the phrase can be just at the beginning of each line, setting the tone as a meditation অথবা a mantra, অথবা it can be utilized আরো subtlety within the poem. The poem can be free verse অথবা prose style.
343. কবিতা Prompt - Write a free verse poem using "sparrows".
344. কবিতা Prompt - Write a series of প্রশ্ন and উত্তর to রচনা a poem.
345. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that describes a walk through a house from the perspective of a child.
346. কবিতা Prompt - Write three different impressions of "saturation". (e.g.: color, sound, aroma, urban-ness, etc.)
347. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the prompt: "chain-link fence"
348. কবিতা Prompt - Write a three part poem using "metronome".
349. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem concerning the "absence" of something. Consider the absence as a positive, অথবা a negative.
350. কবিতা Prompt - তালিকা ten items that আপনি would buy at an auction, অথবা tag sale. Write a poem including those items. আপনি may chose to শিরোনাম your poem, "Things Found At An Auction". Variation, have someone else create a তালিকা for you.
351. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that starts with a one word title, two words in the first line, three in the next, and continues দ্বারা adding one word per line. (Variation: use as a prose exercise.)
352. কবিতা Prompt - "This and That"- Write a তালিকা of phrases such as "salt and pepper", "cats and dogs", "love and war". Write a poem with the first stanza about the first word and the সেকেন্ড stanza about the সেকেন্ড word.
353. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem based on the concept অথবা idea of a "Mobeus strip".
354. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that begins with a বিবরণ of an event, telling what appears to be happening. Then give a বিবরণ of what is really occurring.
355. কবিতা Prompt - As an exercise, write a solo "renga". (Not to argue the authenticity of a renga being written দ্বারা two poets - not one) A renga is a Japanese poetic form similar to haiku, but a series of stanzas linked দ্বারা an idea. Please visit these pages for a full, non-confrontational definition of renga:
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356. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using, "paper and chalk".
357. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the following title: "Another Language", অথবা "Translation".
358. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the following start: "What good is a day..."
359. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem about the "ultimate" poem, অথবা what a poem "should" do.
360. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem in the disguise of a postcard message. Continue দ্বারা লেখা a reply postcard message.
361. কবিতা Prompt - Create a poem using three trinkets. Such as, a shell, a silver charm, and a feather.
362. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the phrase "a foreign language".
363. কবিতা Prompt - On a slip of paper write a তালিকা of 15 "free association" words. Use the 15 words in a poem. Variation: Create and exchange a তালিকা with another person. Then use their তালিকা of words to write a poem.
364. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using, "how to...". For example, "how to write a poem", "how to break my heart"," how to distinguish a ফুল from a frog".
365. কবিতা Prompt - Write three shaped-verse poems. Shaped-verse poems are a form of "pattern poetry", where the letters, words, and lines of the poem are arranged to form a picture/outline of the subject of the poem. An example is a poem in the shape of a বড়দিন বৃক্ষ discussing your thoughts about বড়দিন itself, family traditions, and so on.
366. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that repeats a selected word in each line. Consider using foreign translations of the word. (cat, gato, catze).
367. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem with a seasonal theme.
368. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem about seasonings. For example, "Salt and Saffron".
369. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Paradise of Strangers".
370. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using, " Between Silences".
371. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using "Writers Anonymous" as your title. (Or, "Hi My Name Is ")
372. কবিতা Prompt - Transitory - Write a poem based on transitory things.
373. কবিতা Prompt - Make a তালিকা of your পছন্দ lines from poetry. Use these lines in a collage অথবা create a pocket journal that has one line per page. Memorize them. (And then, optionally, for আপনি Mark Strand fans, eat them.)
374. কবিতা Prompt - Write a Tercet. Examples:
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375. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem about something that "spirals".
376. কবিতা Prompt - Write a culinary poem celebrating food.
377. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that is representative of language/communication.
378. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem about a very small object.
379. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem using প্রতিমূর্তি of things that are connected, such as "paperclip(s)", অথবা "trains".
380. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that is about the "un-truth".
381. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem about things that are transparent.
382. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that starts at the end, moving backwards.
383. কবিতা Exercise - Write a villanelle, অথবা a terzanelle.
A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. (from link)
terzanelle
A terzanelle is a কবিতা form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima. It is nineteen lines total, with five triplets and a concluding quatrain. The rhyme scheme is as follows: Ending Type 1:fAFA' (from link)
384. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem using the theme of, "x-ray", অথবা seeing through layers.
385. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that focuses on sound.
386. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem about playing Jacks, Hopscotch, অথবা another such game.
387. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem in three parts about three different people and their interaction with an item that is the same. The object can be passed between them, অথবা it can be the "same" possession and not the "actual" object the other people have.
388. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that uses the style of a devotion and prayer.
389. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that is written in the style of magnetic poetry. For your word bank আপনি can use one অথবা two pages from a book, magazine অথবা newspaper. আপনি might want to make a photocopy of the pages and cut the words apart, অথবা just transcribe them randomly to your word bank.
390. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that is based on a painting. (You can find many classic paintings here: link)
Example: Pieter Brueghel, The Fall of Icarus
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391. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that refers to "Romeo and Juliet".
392. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Lines of Conversation".
393. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Love Poem Number 137".
394. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "You Need to Have a Plan".
395. Write a poem about how আপনি assembled a puzzle অথবা game from your childhood. Focus on the imagery, the pieces, intention and focus.
396. Write a প্রণয় poem to your পছন্দ book. Be sure to flip through the book, focusing on what আপনি found was most meaningful.
397. Write a poem that incorporates both the view of the antagonist and protagonist in a fairy tale.
398. Ask your বন্ধু to give আপনি five যেভাবে খুশী phrases. The phrases can be fragments অথবা sentences, and should not reference চলচ্চিত্র if possible. Write a poem that incorporates these five phrases.
399. Think of a course আপনি have always wanted to take. Write a poem that focuses on why আপনি find this class to be appealing অথবা interesting. Again, this should not be a class আপনি have taken yet. আপনি want to write a poem that captures your raw level interest in the course.
400. Write a poem dedicated to the dreams আপনি remember the least. These do not have to be dreams আপনি wish to remember, but write to them regardless.
401. তালিকা the three most inconvenient things that happened to আপনি today. Now write a poem about at least one of them.
402. Write a poem about your experience in some type of vehicle used for long distance such as a car, airplane অথবা a train. Where were আপনি going? Was it comfortable? Who did আপনি meet অথবা talk to? Did আপনি forget anything অথবা find something? Did আপনি arrive at the right destination?
403. Find an unpublished poem that আপনি haven’t looked at in years. Randomly choose three lines from the poem. Write a completely different using those lines.
404. Think of a product অথবা a service আপনি dislike. Imagine আপনি have the opportunity to convince them to take that product অথবা service off the market. Write a poem that incorporates your message about this product অথবা service.
405. Take an image that আপনি can recall from the prior week. Use this image to help আপনি write a poem.
406. Think about something specific a loved one does for you. This can be anything from receiving back rubs from your partner অথবা getting seasonal cards from your aunt. Write a poem that incorporates the feelings and প্রতিমূর্তি associated with this event.
407. Pick your পছন্দ খুঁজুন engine. Perform a খুঁজুন on any word আপনি can think of. Choose a word that does not have particular importance to you. Read through the first two pages that come up in the খুঁজুন engine. Pick two sentences and write a poem incorporating those sentences.
408. Think of at least three people from your hometown that আপনি haven’t talked to in a long time. Write a poem that is aimed to address these people for the first time in years.
409. Think of the best independent restaurant আপনি have eaten at recently. Write a poem about the flavors and sensations of the meal and drinks.
410. Think about a coworker অথবা colleague আপনি find distasteful. Write a poem about how this person saves your life.
411. Write a poem that admits a dark secret of yours.
412. Write a poem from the perspective of a creature that lives in a cave অথবা in the deep sea.
413. Listen to a song আপনি really enjoy. Focus on your most পছন্দ part of the music. Write a poem about all the sensations, images, feelings, lyrics and other components of that specific part of the song.
414. Imagine yourself living 300 অথবা আরো years ago. আপনি still have the same personality and body. Write a poem about yourself and your interactions and with the people of that time.
415. Write a poem about the frustration অথবা stresses a pet must feel. Pets could include household pets, circus animals, zoo জন্তু জানোয়ার and so on.
416. Think about a political issue আপনি strongly disagree with. Now write a poem where the aim is to and convince yourself to actually agree with that point.
417. Write a poem about what আপনি expect the end of the world might be like.
418. Write a poem that introduces a book আপনি dislike. আপনি can even use a poem that আপনি aren’t particularly happy with. Write a poem introducing that poem to readers.
419. Write a poem about what আপনি would do if your ex-boyfriend অথবা ex-girlfriend was transformed into a giant stone animal.
420. Write a poem about an animate and inanimate object falling in প্রণয় with each other.
421. Picture a beautiful landscape. Write a poem about that landscape.
422. Take a look at a map. Randomly select a town অথবা city আপনি have never been to. Write a poem about what আপনি think it might be like visiting that place for the first time.
423. Write a poem from the perspective of someone who is from another culture.
424. Take a topic আপনি feel uncomfortable লেখা about. Write a poem about that topic.
425. Write a poem about a historical battle that really reverberates with you.
426. Look up some very rare ফুলেরডালি in at least two different countries. Write a poem that incorporates the features of these plants and their many parts.
427. Pick a topic in the computing sciences that আপনি know absolutely nothing about. Do a quick খুঁজুন on it, and spend at least 30 মিনিট trying to understand it from your perspective. Write a poem either about the experience অথবা the topic.
428. Find one of your পছন্দ recipes. Write a poem that utilizes some of the steps of that recipe.
429. Write a poem about the way a specific room changes throughout a year. Focus on the objects in the room, lighting, dirt অথবা dust, stains, smells and all the other parts that make a room.
430. Write a poem about some aspect of the grieving অথবা bereavement process. The loss, anger, loneliness, acceptance and moving on are all potential topics.
431. Write a poem about positive transformations One example might be the moment that someone আপনি thought was unattractive অথবা plain was suddenly beautiful.
432. Find a cause seeking donations in your community. Imagine this cause is having an auction to raise donations. Write a poem about that auction. Mention if আপনি would bid and what আপনি would bid.
433. Write a poem designed for the personals section in a newspaper অথবা online listing. Try to incorporate the type of লেখা typically used in a personals section.
434. Write a poem about a piece of clothing আপনি would নকশা if আপনি had the resources and poem.
435. Write a poem about the moment when আপনি lose a necessary piece that is needed to make something electronic work. Some examples might include losing a charger for a computer অথবা সঙ্গীত player.
436. Write a poem in which আপনি ultimately apologize to someone অথবা something.
437. Try to remember some of the most memorable কবিতা readings আপনি have attended. Write a poem saying thank আপনি to those readings and the readers.
438. Check your local news for any new gallery exhibits in the area. Attend the exhibit and write a poem that discusses some elements of the exhibit.
439. Write a persona poem on someone that is very controversial. Consider লেখা a poem on a serial killer অথবা a famous gang member.
440. Go outside and note at least three different cars on your street. Incorporate the make and model of the car, color and other features of the car into a poem.
441. Write a poem about cloning someone who is recently deceased. Think of various attributes of the সামগ্রিক cloning process such as personality differences, health problems, controversy, and the comparisons of the deceased to the new clone.
442. Write a poem from the perspective of someone who dislikes what আপনি do professionally.
443. Write a poem about how আপনি find happiness through something that actually makes আপনি deeply unhappy.
444. Look at the last 10 poems আপনি have written. Pay attention to the ending lines. Use one of those ending lines to begin a new poem.
445. Use the word Pattern in the first line and/or the last line of your poem.
446. Write a poem that begins with আপনি waking up.
447. Write a poem that begins with a proclamation. If আপনি need a phrase to get your juices going, try “I will”.
448. Write the final line to your poem first, and then write the poem to get to that ending. I am choosing to end my poem with “His hallucinations make him giggle” which others are welcome to use.
449. Pick three words that আপনি absolutely প্রণয় the sound of and set out to use them in your poem.
450. Use the same (or similar) words in both your first line and last line, but change the order অথবা the meaning of the words from the first line to the last line.
451. Write a poem that involves an animal.
452. Write a তালিকা poem about things আপনি have done in your life.
453. Use the word “secret” twice in your poem.
454. Use a letter count as a constraint for your poetry, either লেখা a brand new poem অথবা rewriting an old poem to fit the new pattern. আপনি can either count the spaces and punctuation between words as letters অথবা count only the actual letters. Keep in mind that আপনি don’t have to use the exact same number in every line, আপনি can also develop at pattern such as 20-25-20-25.
455. Write অথবা rewrite a greeting card poem so that is has meaning to you, অথবা at least is funny.
456. A Ritual Poem takes a ritual (real অথবা imagined) and brings a sense of meaning and reflection to the ritual it describes. Here are some steps to follow (a ritual poem ritual):
1. Pick an element of life that has অথবা deserves a ritual
2. Decide the result আপনি would want the ritual to produce
3. Think of the actions আপনি would take to achieve the result
4. Turn the actions into steps অথবা commands
457. Write a poem using Skeltonic Verse.
458. Write a poem about a specific but minor memory আপনি have from আরো than five, but less than ten years ago.
459. Write a Tanka. Feel free to write আরো than one if আপনি like.
460. Write a definition poem. A definition poem takes a word অথবা a concept and attempts to define it, provide perspective, redefine it, অথবা create a definitive example of it.
461. Write a poem that is set at অথবা near where আপনি live.
462. Write a poem in the form of a letter (epistle).
463. Write a poem that begins and ends with three single syllable words.
464. Write a poem that begins with a line of উপদেশ অথবা instruction, such as don’t give up অথবা take a left at the willow tree.
465. September 21st is the last দিন of summer in the northern hemisphere and the last দিন of winter in the southern hemisphere. With that in mind, write a poem in which the seasons play a role.
466. Write a poem in which a similar অথবা identical phrase is repeated three অথবা আরো times throughout the poem.
467. Write a poem using iambic pentameter. If আপনি aren’t familiar with Iambic pentameter, it is discussed in full here.
468. Write a poem that begins with the word “I”.
469. Write a poem as that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.
470. Write a poem about a natural event.
471. Use one of the lists of words above অথবা pick your own morpheme and use it to add adnomination to your poetry.
472. Pick two অথবা three words from your last poem use them as the first three words of this poem.
473. Write a poem that gets shorter with each line.
474. Write a poem about the end of something.
475. Write a poem about something আপনি believe.
476. Write a poem that includes at least one বিবরণ of an object that is six অথবা আরো words long.
477. Write a poem that uses some sort of meter. If আপনি want a challenge, attempt a meter আপনি haven’t worked with before. For an extra added challenge, try to work in the word belly.
478. Write a Blues Sonnet:
1. Write 5 thematically similar heroic couplets of iambic pentameter.
2. In first four, repeat first line of each couplet, yielding the 14 lines of the sonnet.
3. Then, if desired, modify middle lines, of the stanzas without disturbing rhyme অথবা rhythm to strengthen the stanza and give variety.
4. Get out a blues recording and have fun গান গাওয়া your blues song!
479. Write a poem about an event in your life that আপনি have strong feelings about (it doesn’t have to be painful) without stating how আপনি feel about the event. If আপনি want an extra challenge, end every third line with the letter “R”.
480. Write a poetic parable. Feel free to play with the form. Sometimes it is আরো interesting when the lesson is just a bit absurd.
481. Write about something in your life that আপনি do every day. If আপনি want an added challenge, make the first and the last lines the same অথবা similar.
482. Write a blank verse poem. Blank verse has meter, but no rhyme. The typical meter for blank verse is iambic pentameter, but আপনি can try other meters as well. If আপনি want an added challenge, include the word “line”.
483. Write a Pantoum. Feel free to experiment with the form until আপনি write something to your own liking. If আপনি enjoyed this, try a sestina অথবা villanelle.
484. Write a poem that tells a story. For an added challenge, use a word count. Write four stanzas, each with 30 words.
485. Write a poem as if it were an entry in someone’s journal অথবা diary অথবা even their Twitter account. If আপনি want an added challenge, your stanzas to 145 characters so they mirror the limitations of texting.
486. Go outdoors and get some fresh air. Find a comfortable spot and write a poem. If আপনি want to try a tanka (or a few) go for it.
487. Write a poem in ten minutes. It should have at least 100 words. For an added challenge, work in the word “speed”.
488. Create your own found poem. If আপনি are looking for inspiration, use গুগুল News to find an প্রবন্ধ to your liking.
489. Write a poem that uses exactly the same number of characters on every line. আপনি can pick the length, but once আপনি start আপনি have to stick to it. For an extra challenge, try লেখা about an event that has happened in the past 24 hour.
490. Write a poem that ends with the word “quiet”.
491. Either use a set of hyponyms as the structure for your poem অথবা write a poem around the phrase, “He was blue, she was a rabbit.”
492. Write a poem that uses something other than traditional end rhyme.
493. Create a poem that uses one of the following word combinations (they don’t have to be in the same line):
1. boot, tune, fool
2. but, feet, knot
3. kit, tap, pock
4. seize, fourth, thighs
494. Write about something আপনি can see from the window of your home.
495. Write a poem about a place আপনি have been অথবা a journey আপনি have taken.
496. Call an old friend and write a poem after the conversation
497. Find an original way to describe a chair and make that the first line of your poem.
498. Write about the first time আপনি did something.
499. Write a poem that demonstrates strong emotion without ever stating what that emotion is.
500. Write a poem about a contest, a win, অথবা a loss.
501. Write a poem as if it were a letter to a friend.
502. Include the word right অথবা rights in your poem.
503. Start your poem with a piece of advice.
504. Write a poem about your childhood. Explore an actual event that had some emotional significance to you. Avoid using any বিবরণ of how আপনি felt about the event then অথবা how আপনি feel about it now. Instead, try to make the emotion of the event come through in your descriptions of what happened. Feel free to post your poem in the মতামত অথবা on your own site with a link back to here. This will give other people the opportunity to read your poem.
505. Write about an event in your life that happened within the past week. Take some time to think about the week and look for event that has some emotional meaning for you, but not so much that it would be painful for আপনি to write about. Sometimes smaller moments have আরো meaning. Feel free to post your poem in the মতামত অথবা on your own site with a link back to here. This will give other people the opportunity to read your poem.
506. Find a news অথবা opinion প্রবন্ধ that was published on the web this week. I recommend using গুগুল News because it can take আপনি just about anywhere. Look for a story that has some emotional অথবা philosophical impact on আপনি and use that story as the basis for your poem. If আপনি post your poem here, be sure to post a link to the original প্রবন্ধ so we can see the inspiration!
507. Get out of the house and write in a new place. Write about the place আপনি choose to go to. Don’t just rely on what আপনি see. Describe the smells, the tastes and the sounds if আপনি can. Try to give your readers a full picture of the place আপনি choose.
508. Write a persona poem that incorporates one of the past two concepts. It should either address a social issue অথবা it should provide a strong sense of place. One great way to do the latter is to write a poem in a public place, and to observe the people around আপনি until আপনি find someone interesting that আপনি can imagine a back-story for.
509. Take at least five মিনিট to meditate in a quiet room free of outside influences before আপনি write today’s poem. Try to clear your head of stray thoughts. Once আপনি feel like আপনি are clear and calm, write your poem. Let the topic be about whatever comes to mind after your meditation. If আপনি have never meditated before, simply sit in a chair with your eyes closed and try to relax.
510. Write a তালিকা poem that uses a single line for each item on the list. Feel free to choose one of the topics above, অথবা use anything else that comes to mind. As always, post the poem in the মতামত section if আপনি would like to share it.
511. Write an elegy about a person অথবা event that is meaningful to you. আপনি don’t necessarily have to approach the most tragic event in your life. Don’t try to take on an event that is still too difficult for আপনি to deal with. Look for something that আপনি can handle.
512. Write a poem using a specific meter. The meter can be of your own choosing অথবা even your own making, as long as আপনি put a pattern into place. As always, feel free to post your poem in the মতামত section of this post.
513. Write a three অথবা আরো stanza poem that uses a metered style for the first two stanzas and a non-metered format for the remaining stanzas. As always, feel free to post your poem in the মতামত section for others to see.
514. Read a poet আপনি don’t like. Try to figure out what they do that upsets আপনি and determine whether অথবা not this assessment is fair. Try to think of ways that আপনি would approach the same subject matter using your style. Write a poem that addresses some of the same subject / style / tone of the poet আপনি dislike but do it in your own style.
515. Write a poem using syllabic verse. আপনি can assign length ether দ্বারা line অথবা stanza. If আপনি are stuck for a way to begin, start with this two-word ten-syllable line: Incompatible Participation
516. Read a poet আপনি don’t like. Try to figure out what they do that upsets আপনি and determine whether অথবা not this assessment is fair. Try to think of ways that আপনি would approach the same subject matter using your style. Write a poem that addresses some of the same subject / style / tone of the poet আপনি dislike but do it in your own style.
517. Today is a two-part assignment. The first part is to think about your method of লেখা poetry. The সেকেন্ড part is to shake up your process. If আপনি have a lot of structure, try loosening up. If আপনি write very loosely, try adding some structure to the process. Find a new place to write অথবা use a different tool. The change doesn’t have to be major, but if আপনি post your poem, please tell us what আপনি changed.
518. Write a poem that uses at least two different forms of repetition. Try to embrace at least one form of repetition that আপনি don’t ordinarily use.
519. Write a poem that follows the three rules of the imagists.
1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective অথবা objective.
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
3. As regarding rhythm: to রচনা in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.
520. Revisit a পূর্ববর্তি poem, perhaps one আপনি especially liked অথবা one আপনি had trouble with, and write another poem following those same parameters.
521. Wikipedia’s যেভাবে খুশী Button is a great and magical thing. Click it and write about whatever subject comes up.
522. Include the words “formal” and “casual” at some point in your poem.
523. Write a poem that has a variable line length rather than a set meter. Use either enjammed অথবা endstopped lines.
524. Write a poem that begins with a negative image অথবা statement and ends with a positive image অথবা statement.
525. Write a three stanza poem that shows a progression with each stanza. The three stanzas should serve as a beginning, middle and end respectively. It might help to picture the poem as a three act play.
526. Try something that scares আপনি (just a little) and then write a poem about it.
527. Write a poem that discusses a real moment in your life without discussing its larger meaning অথবা attempting to lead the reader to a conclusion.
528. Include a verb in every line of your poem.
529. Write a poem that begins and ends with the same word.
530. Write the first draft of your poem in paragraph form and then change it into a free verse poem. Don’t be surprised if আপনি have to change lines, words and phrases. That is a part of the process.
531. Look at some old photographs and write about a memory অথবা a thought that they give you.
532. Write a poem that either uses no words longer than five letters অথবা no words shorter than five letters.
533. Write the final line of your poem first, then figure out a way to get there.
534. I feel like ending with something technical but random. Don’t include any word with a single “A” in it, but do include at least one word with two “A”s in it.
535. Write a poem that takes place inside a vehicle (car, truck, train, plane, boat, etc.)
536. Write a poem in which আপনি use three different words for the same অথবা a similar color.
537. Write a poem that uses two অথবা আরো different settings / locations.
538. Write a poem that includes at least three different flavors and two odors.
539. Write a poem in which each line has six words and makes a statement অথবা at least expresses a complete thought.
540. Write a poem in which every stanza either begins with a প্রশ্ন অথবা ends with a question.
541. Write a poem in the form of a joke.
542. Write a poem that takes place at a public gathering such as a meeting, a carnival, a sporting event অথবা a concert.
543. Write a poem about building অথবা creating something দ্বারা hand.
544. Write a poem that involves cutting, chopping অথবা dividing something.
545. Write a poem about having to defend yourself অথবা someone else.
546. Write a poem in which আপনি discuss three things that আপনি অথবা your persona wants.
547. Write a poem that repeatedly uses numbers.
548. Write a poem that involves a plan.
549. Write a poem that take place at a specific time of the day.
550. Write a poem that involves consequences.
551. Write a poem that takes place in অথবা otherwise involves a classroom.
552. Write a poem about waiting for a specific event.
553. Write a poem about getting হারিয়ে গেছে অথবা losing something.
554. Write a poem about getting অথবা sending a message (postcard, letter, phone call, email)
555. Write a poem that includes something that malfunctions অথবা breaks down.
556. Write a poem about training for something অথবা working towards a distant goal.
557. Write a poem about a person অথবা a place that has several different names (it’s actually quite common).
558. Write a poem in which something gets opened অথবা closed.
559. Write a poem in which something gets faked অথবা simulated.
560. Write a poem about a rivalry.
561. Write a poem about a place that has changed considerably over time (construction, destruction, renovation, disrepair, etc.)
562. Write a poem that involves flirtation.
563. Write a poem that includes a path, a trail, অথবা a map.
564. Write a poem that involves a long-term relationship (love, friendship, family, group, etc.)
1. Write a poem about one অথবা all of the four seasons. (Some ideas for brainstorming: What does the season look, feel, smell like? What memories do আপনি associate with that season?).
2. Write a poem using three of the following words: expensive, lampshade, bruise, convincing.
3. Write a poem about something that happened to someone আপনি know. Write about it as if it had happened to you.
4. Write a poem about your shadow. (Some ideas for brainstorming: How does it change when আপনি move? What does it look like in different kinds of light, in different situations? What would happen if আপনি হারিয়ে গেছে it? Does it have a secret life?)
5. Write a poem using all of the following words: smooth, soothe, work, dark.
6. Write a poem based on a dream আপনি had. Try to reproduce the sensations of the dream.
7. Write a poem based on your belief about life after death... অথবা about what আপনি WISH আপনি believed.
8. Write a poem using all of the following words: snake, honey, thaw.
9. Write a poem from the perspective of a character in a fairy tale.
10. Write a poem using all of the following words: moth, angle, cloth, tangle.
11. Write a poem that tells the story of a specific প্রণয় affair অথবা marriage.
12. Write a poem in the form of a message অথবা letter to your future self.
13. Write a poem about the color red অথবা another color. (Some ideas for brainstorming: How does the color make আপনি feel? What things do আপনি associate with that color?)
14. Write a poem about a place that frightens আপনি অথবা a place where আপনি feel happy. Try to recreate the feeling of the place.
15. Write a poem using all of the following words: exquisite, visit, glisten.
16. Write a poem about something অথবা someone আপনি lost.
17. Write a poem using all of the following words: dim, hinge, dingy.
18. Write a poem in the form of a lullaby.
19. Write a poem about yourself in which nothing is true.
20. Night-time
21. A particular color
22. Being underwater
23. A person whose life you're curious about
24. Your mother's perfume
25. Falling asleep অথবা waking up
26. Growing older
27. The feeling of getting হারিয়ে গেছে in a book
28. How to know if you're in love
29. A bad dream
30. A ghost
31. Your city, town, অথবা neighborhood
32. An important life choice you've made
33. Spring, summer, fall, অথবা winter
34. Something most people see as ugly but which আপনি see as beautiful
35. Jealousy
36. Becoming a parent
37. An event that changed you
38. A place আপনি visited -- how আপনি imagined it beforehand, and what it was actually like
39. The ocean
40. Forgetting
41. The speed of light
42. A voodoo doll
43. Reflections on a window
44. A newspaper headline
45. Your greatest fear
46. Your grandmother's hands
47. A particular toy আপনি had as a child
48. Being invisible
49. A time আপনি felt homesick
50. Having an affair, অথবা discovering your partner is having one
51. Birthdays
52. A পছন্দ খাবার and a specific memory of eating it
53. An imaginary city
54. Driving with the radio on
55. Life in an aquarium
56. Dancing
57. Walking with your eyes closed
58. What a computer might daydream about
59. Time travel
60. Brothers অথবা sisters
61. Your job, অথবা a job you've had
62. Weddings
63. Leaving home
64. Camping
65. A zoo
66. A historical event from the perspective of someone who saw it firsthand (You will have to do some research for this).
67. Holding your breath
68. Intimacy and privacy
69. A time আপনি were tempted to do something আপনি feel is wrong
70. Physical attraction to someone
71. A superstition আপনি have
72. Someone আপনি admire
73. Write about the taste of: an egg, an orange, medicine, cinnamon
74. Write about the smell of: burning food, melting snow, the ocean, your grandparents' home, the inside of a bus, pavement after the rain
75. Write about the sound of: a radio changing channels, a dog howling, a football অথবা baseball game, your parents talking in another room
76. Write about the sight of: lit windows in a house when you're standing outside at night, someone আপনি প্রণয় when he অথবা she doesn't know you're watching, a dying plant, shadows on snow
77. Write about the feeling of: ঘাস under bare feet, a really bad kiss, the headrush when আপনি stand up too fast, sore muscles, falling asleep in the back আসন of a moving car.
78. a dessert, a memory, and someone in your family
79. dancing, a pitch-black room, and the smell of lilacs
80. a balloon, smoke, and a keyhole
81. a secret box, an ice cube tray, and a velvet ribbon
82. a betrayal, soap, and a plane ticket
83. Rain, snow, অথবা a storm
84. An animal আপনি think is beautiful অথবা strange
85. Your parents অথবা children
86. How a চুম্বন feels
87. The house where আপনি were born
88. A smell that brings back memories
89. Being a teenager, becoming an adult, middle age, old age
90. Feeling lonely
91. The moon
92. Getting lost
93. Marriage অথবা divorce
94. An imaginary friend
95. Life in the future
96. The hottest, coldest, অথবা most exhausted আপনি have ever felt
97. Having a fever
98. A new version of a fairy-tale
99. The shapes আপনি see in clouds
100. A letter
101. A recipe
102. A horoscope
103. A fragment from an unusual dictionary
104. A prayer
105. A shopping list
106. A magic spell.
107. One of your parents
108. Your child (real অথবা imagined)
109. A historical figure (You will have to do research for this one.)
110. A very old person
111. An athlete who has just হারিয়ে গেছে the big game
112. The most popular/unpopular kid from your school
113. An inanimate object in your home.
114. Listen to a piece of সঙ্গীত and write about the প্রতিমূর্তি that it brings into your mind.
115. People-watch, eavesdrop, and write about your observations and imaginings.
116. Sit in a park and close your eyes. Notice all of the sounds and smells. Write about them afterward.
117. Keep a notebook পরবর্তি to your বিছানা and write down your dreams at night to turn them into poems later.
118. Make a তালিকা of words আপনি think are unusual, then try to use them in poems.
119. Watch an animal and write a poem about what it looks like and what it does.
120. Smell different spices in your রান্নাঘর and write about the memories that they inspire.
121. Look through old family photographs and choose some to write poems about.
122. Go on a "field trip" -- a museum, the zoo, a greenhouse -- to hunt for কবিতা ideas.
123. Get inspiration from বই on an area of science অথবা history that interests you.
124. Three wishes
125. Traveling to an unknown place
126. Getting a haircut
127. A scientific fact (real অথবা invented)
128. An insect that got into your home
129. The sound of a specific language
130. Death
131. The number 3
132. The ocean
133. Missing someone
134. Something that makes আপনি angry
135. The feeling of writing, why আপনি want to be a writer
136. The ups and downs of love
137. The view out your window
138. City lights at night
139. A particular work of art
140. Having a superpower
141. Being in an airplane
142. Playing a sport
143. A shadow
144. A person transformed into an animal
145. Daydream
146. Cry
147. চুম্বন well
148. Find happiness
149. Peel a peach
150. "Silky," "gigantic," and "puzzle."
151. "Leaf," "accelerating," and "sticky."
152. "Skin," "drastic," and "dusty."
153. "Interrupt," "nutmeg," and "crystalline."
154. "Exacting," "oxygen," and "delicate."
155. "Reptilian," "arched," and "honey."
156. First Kiss
157. Chained Angel
158. Empty Heart
159. Sirens Call
160. Bloodline
161. Soldiers Guilt
162. Mothers Guilt
163. Wilting Flower
164. Time Stopped
165. Hidden Away
166. Icy Tears
167. Dream Lover
168. Never Again
169. Slave Girl
170. হারিয়ে গেছে In a Dream
171. Tithe
172. Dream Catcher
173. Empty Coffin
174. হারিয়ে গেছে Days
175. The দিন I Meet You
176. দেবদূত Touch
177. Destiny’s Call
178. New Day
179. Black Rose
180. Say My Name
181. Stop My Heart
182. Midnight Hour
183. Don’t Leave
184. Love’s Spell
185. Old House
186. Shallow Grave
187. Broken Chair
188. Dancing Girl
189. Seductive Smile
190. Left Behind
191. Road kill
192. Great white hunter
193. Evil Smile
194. দেবদূত Tears
195. The moon glowed as they danced…
196. Can আপনি hear me call…?
197. The look in your eye makes me shiver in…
198. She was a thing of beauty and of light…
199. The আগুন is low and the curtains drawn…
200. Filled with sunshine and laughter…
201. The eagle let out a lonesome cry…
202. I burn for আপনি in the darkness…
203. Draw me near and whisper gently…
204. Tell me it isn’t true…
205. The sign stood battered and worn
206. It breathed in the darkness পরবর্তি to me…
207. If the devil cried,
208. If the world ended tomorrow...
209. The eyes glowed in the darkness…
210. The waves rolled out across the sands…
211. The ghostly figure shimmered in the light…
212. The path winds forever forward…
213. Beware the charming smile in the night…
214. হারিয়ে গেছে in a dream…
215. The night was thick with romance…
216. Never parted
217. Stranger in the dark
218. Broken carriage
219. Forbidden meeting
220. প্রণয় spell
221. Cursed
222. Tears of the vampire
223. A time to die
224. A dreams kiss
225. Midnight vow
226. Hunted
227. Broken sword
228. হৃদয় of a killer
229. Living statue
230. Secret
231. Blood Slave
232. Painted glass
233. Hidden from sight
234. Shattered mirror
235. Forbidden meeting
236. Grandma
237. Job interview
238. Murdering heart
239. Secrets
240. Confusion
241. Blood tears
242. Liar
243. Reunion
244. Road kill
245. Blindness
246. Burning cross
247. Book
248. The wind
249. Poisoned flower
250. Wild
251. Mob
252. Innocent touch
253. Madness
254. Ancient
255. Beware
256. Blood pact
257. বড়দিন ornament
258. Frozen
259. Broken promise
260. Telephone call
261. Road rage
262. Crossroads
263. Trapped
264. Witch’s familiar
265. Birth
266. Crying ghost
267. Garbage bin
268. Car accident
269. Floating body
270. Late to the party
271. Cursed town
272. False accusation
273. Death’s Visit
274. Woman scorned
275. Key
276. Grandma’s secret
277. Obsession
278. Devil’s tango
279. Broken dice
280. Miles to go
281. Overrun
282. Lost
283. Dead heart
284. Forbidden laughter
285. Old tree
286. Blue eyes
287. Vengeance
288. Dead bugs
289. Returning
290. Sound Off
Sounds are filled with meaning. Poets can use sounds not only to create wonderful and complex worlds through words, but also to create a rhythm and flow that gives life to the wind, the footsteps, and closing doors around us. Sit quietly somewhere with colorful and unique sounds: an art museum, a lonely riverbank, অথবা a bustling subway station. Write a poem about the sounds আপনি hear. Focus on the কবিতা and সঙ্গীত of the sounds, and how the sounds put everything else—nature, life, and death—into context.
291. Disappointment
কবিতা has very powerful redemptive and healing capacities. The mere process of লেখা and পাঠ করা কবিতা forces us to connect with life on a meaningful, meditative level. কবিতা requires a deliberate and calm contemplation that creates spaces for forgiveness, understanding, and self-awareness. Write a poem about a সাম্প্রতিক disappointment in your life. Be honest about your feelings. The power of your কবিতা begins with your truths.
292. Focus on Family
Like snowflakes, every family is unique. From quirky aunts and greedy uncles to gracious moms and despicable cousins, every family is peculiar in some meaningful way. Write a poem about your family. Focus on the people who create the love, the pain, and the dynamics that define your family. Be honest. Be courageous. Be open.
293. Travel Poetry
It is estimated that 43.4 million Americans will travel fifty অথবা আরো miles this Thanksgiving weekend. Travel is so often inspiring because it mixes a sensory experience with the opportunity for a prolonged period of contemplation. Write a poem about a সাম্প্রতিক trip আপনি took. Carefully select your words to evoke the sights and sounds that accompanied the journey of your inner thoughts and feelings.
294. Changes
Our lives are constantly changing as we navigate what we can and can’t control. Every দিন there is a new beginning and ending—in big and small ways. We fall in love. We lose an eyelash. Write a poem about how your life is changing. Be specific. Change is complex and emotional on any level because it reminds us of our humanity—and of our mortality. Get writing.
295. হারিয়ে গেছে and Found
We all lose things in life that are uniquely special to us: a wool scarf knitted দ্বারা a beloved friend, a letter opener that belonged to a grandfather, a stuffed animal won for a daughter at a state fair. Life moves অগ্রবর্তী and so do we. Time crowds old memories with new ones. We misplace the things we love. We lose them. Or, somehow, they just leave us. Write a poem about an object that has disappeared from your life. Use the power of memory and emotion to give it new life, rendering it no longer lost, but found.
296. Guest Poetry
The holiday season is here, which means আপনি will soon be a guest at a work party, gathering of friends, অথবা family-oriented celebration. This is the season for poets. Begin your “Thank You” poems now. Celebrate what companionship means to আপনি and express your gratitude for the honor of being invited. Make your poems personal and sincere. (Consider attaching each poem to a nice bottle of wine and personally hand it to your host.)
297. Our Years of Fear
হ্যালোইন week is here. Write a poem about something আপনি feared as a child. As adults we fear loneliness, intellectual and financial ruin, and—of course—death. However, children experience the world and their own humanity differently; yet, their fears are just as scary, valid, and profound. Begin the poem as an innocent child. End the poem as a mature adult.
298. Poetic Appreciation
কবিতা is an act of appreciation. With our increasingly busy schedules, we lose our ability to appreciate. Poets must resist the modern temptation to overlook what holds meaning in our lives. Identify something in your surroundings—a rusted নিড়ানি, hoe draped in মাকড়সা webs, an unfashionable dress abandoned দ্বারা time, a wine cork buried in a drawer of unpaid bills—and write a poem that appreciates these lonely items.
299. Relationships
Life is about relationships. As with everything in life, all relationships end for various reasons. Think about a relationship that আপনি valued that has ended—a friend, a lover, a family member. Write a poem that encapsulates your sense of loss and appreciation and how this particular person impacted your life. The power of কবিতা transcends everything that ends.
300. Crash Poetry
Collisions spark creativity. রঙ collide to form new colors. Opposing ideas create an inspired argument. Friction makes fire. Write a poem that combines two unrelated entities in your life: Imagine your birth certificate under a decaying woodpile, your mother-in-law clenching spark plugs, a bluebird গান গাওয়া in your freezer. Push your imagination. The words will follow.
301. কবিতা for Humanity
The human race, দ্বারা nature, is flawed. Deep within our DNA is the capacity for violence, hatred, and deceit. Choose an aspect of human nature that disturbs you. Write a poem describing this ugly and flawed characteristic of human nature. Write a সেকেন্ড poem about how we, the human race, can fix it.
302. কবিতা Appreciation
Revisit one of your পছন্দ poems দ্বারা another poet. What appeals to আপনি about this particular poem—the structure, the sound, the imagery, the subject matter? Write a poem dedicated to this poet and poem. প্রদর্শনী your appreciation দ্বারা instilling those same respected qualities in your own writing.
303. Train Changers
People come in and out of our lives like passengers on a train. Some stay for much of our journey. Others get on and off, quickly disappearing into their own travels. Write a poem about someone who became part of your life, but left the train. Who were they? Why do আপনি miss them? What happened? Focus on tone, voice, and imagery.
304. Reaching Out
লেখা কবিতা can be a lonely endeavor. পাঠ করা poetry, however, can introduce us to people and worlds we’ve never experienced. Use the power of কবিতা to help someone who is lonely. The woman resting her head on the steering wheel at a long red light. The old man with a soggy coaster at the end of the bar. The adolescent kid hiding in the school bathroom. Write a poem for them, from you.
305. Change of Words
The end of summer means the beginning of autumn. This is a time of change. Write a poem about the changes occurring in your life. Choose powerful verbs. Focus on the feelings of expectation, fear, and relief that come with change. Use vivid imagery. It is during change that we are often the most alive.
306. রান্নাঘর Table
The center of our families, our homes, and our most treasured conversations occur at the রান্নাঘর table. We discuss the vibrant color of sautéed asparagus, the deep laugh of a deceased grandfather, অথবা sit quietly, alone, worrying about our children at 3am. Write a poem about your রান্নাঘর table, and the food, voices, and thoughts it has experienced over the years.
307. Window Words
Windows, like frames for ছবি and paintings, provide a context to the vast world around us. Sit দ্বারা your পছন্দ window and write a poem about life beyond the glass: diaphanous oak leaves spangled in sunlight, fatigued men hanging from a garbage truck, chirping songbirds flitting through summer rain, a hunched elderly woman who feels forgotten. Remember: This is your window as defined দ্বারা your life. Give yourself thirty minutes.
308. খাবার for Thought
Think of your পছন্দ meal. Write a poem about the recipe, describing how each ingredient and every action contributes to the final whole. Evoke the five senses—from the sound of a whisk to the smell of paprika. Explore what this meal means to আপনি and why. Write vibrantly, unless gruel is your thing.
309. Insecurity
লেখা কবিতা is an act of empowerment. Sit quietly at your desk. Think about what you’re most insecure about in life: being a good parent, making enough money, not being able to প্রণয় fully. Write a poem about how আপনি plan to overcome that insecurity.
310. Remembering the August Ahead
Time is what we call the brutal miracle that makes us grow old. Certain months of time remind us of falling in love, burying a loved one, অথবা moving into a new house. This week, as we say goodbye to July, reflect on what August has meant to your life. Begin your poem with your childhood. Then describe how August has changed আপনি and your perception of the world.
311. মিনিট to Explain
কবিতা harnesses the power of metaphors and similes to reach a part of humanity that is inaccessible to all other forms of communication. Think about someone আপনি love. Spend 15 মিনিট making a তালিকা of their notable attributes—both flattering and incriminating. Describe those attributes using simple metaphors and similes to explain the complex feelings this person evokes within you.
312. Your Other Life
Poetry, like life, is about making decisions. Write a poem to the person আপনি may have become had আপনি made an important life decision differently. Remember, this version of আপনি is also vulnerable to the whims of an indifferent universe, so you’re merely making an educated guess as to your doppelgänger’s outcome. Craft your poem with respect. You’re লেখা to you.
313. Inch দ্বারা Inch
Choose an inch of মহাকাশ anywhere around you: the sole of your hiking boot, the rusted headlight of an abandoned car, that weathered and broken thumb your grandfather used to pry open the back fence. Write about that inch. As poets we often become overwhelmed দ্বারা the big picture. We seek to conquer love, injustice, and the meaning of meaning. Take a step back. Focus the scope of your poetry. লেখা about a single drop of rain can tell us the most about the sky above.
314. Life, friends, is boring
"For the কবিতা reader...there are certain emotions আপনি are allowed to feel—sadness, love—but this is such a miserable choice of all the emotions one feels," writes Craig Raine in the English Review. "One feels anger, boredom, chilliness—quite strong emotions, but they don't get much of a run in poetry, and I think they should." Write a poem about anger অথবা boredom অথবা any other "nonpoetic" emotion. If আপনি have trouble getting started, try using the first line of John Berryman's devastating "Dream Song 14": "Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so."
315. ফুলেরডালি of Evil
On June 25, 1857, French poet Charles Baudelaire published his book Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), which led to his conviction on charges of blasphemy and obscenity. Here's a sample: "Huddled, teeming, like gut-worms দ্বারা the million, a clutch of Demons make whoopee in our brain and, when we breath, Death floods our lungs, an invisible torrent, muffled in groans." Get good and dark: Read a bit from ফুলেরডালি of Evil then write a short poem. Unleash the gut-worms!
316. How's the Weather?
"I know Midwesterners are accused of talking too much about the weather, but that criticism must surely come from people who don't have weather like ours," novelist David Rhodes once wrote to his editor at Milkweed Editions, Ben Barnhart. "These last few weeks have been filled with the bright, indolent humidity of summer, offset দ্বারা sudden, tyrannical darkness and booming threats of অতিপ্রাকৃতিক violence. Not mentioning such revolutionary experiences would be inhuman." Go Midwestern and write a poem about today's weather. And if you're interested, read "After the Flood: A পরিলেখ of David Rhodes," from the September/October 2008 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
317. Taming the Unruly
In a পরিলেখ of Natasha Trethewey in the September/October 2012 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, contributing editor Kevin Nance উদ্ধৃতি the poet laureate (who was elected to a সেকেন্ড term on Monday) about her use of poetic form. "I never set out to write in a particular form, but usually something in the early drafting process suggests to me the possibility of a form I might follow that might help take the poem in a better direction than I might have sent it without following that impulse,” Trethewey says. “I find that it helps me with poems that have seemed unruly for some reason—maybe the story is too big, অথবা the emotion of it is overwhelming for me, and the form helps bring shape to it." Choose a poem that has been giving আপনি trouble—an unruly poem of your own—and try to rewrite it as a sonnet, a villanelle, a pantoum, অথবা another form. (Consult the Academy of American Poets website for help with poetic forms.)
318. Dark Rooms
In their introduction to My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected কবিতা of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় Press, 2008), Kevin Killian and Peter Gizzi write about Spicer's idea of the serial poem, "a book-length progression of short poems that function together as a single movement." Robin Blaser described the form as "a dark house, where আপনি throw a light on in a room, then turn it off, and enter the পরবর্তি room, where আপনি turn on a light, and so on." As Spicer's কবিতা "moves from dark room to dark room," Killian and Gizzi write, "each flash of illumination leaves an afterimage on the imagination, and the lines of the poem become artifacts of an ongoing engagement with larger forces." Read some of Jack Spicer's long poems, including The Holy Grail and Billy the Kid. Consider throwing a light on some rooms of your own.
319. May Swenson
In honor of the centennial anniversary of the birth of May Swenson, on May 28, read some poems দ্বারা this award-winning poet (consult the Academy of American Poets website for a bibliography), then write a poem with her work in mind. Remember, this is a poet who, four months before her death on December 28, 1989, wrote, "The best কবিতা has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct আরো than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem."
320. Overheard
কবিতা is all around you. Find a public place—a train station, a park bench, a রাস্তা corner, a coffee shop, a bookstore, the line at the Department of Motor Vehicles—and listen to the people around you. Choose one quote from a stranger and use it as the first and last line of a new poem.
321. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Print অথবা write out a handful of unfinished poems you’ve had difficulty revising. Cut out each line and mix them up. Rearrange the lines to make a new poem. Consider using one of the lines as the title.
322. Achilles' Heel
Pick an iconic figure with a famous weak spot (Superman and kryptonite, Achilles and his heel, Samson and his hair, the Wicked Witch of the West and water). Write a letter from the প্রতীকী to the weakness অথবা from the weakness to the icon. Is it hate mail? A প্রণয় poem? A blackmail note? Advice?
323. পছন্দ Line
Choose a পছন্দ অথবা compelling line from another writer's poem, and write your own line with same number of stressed syllables and same vowel sounds. Use this line as the start of a new poem.
324. Write a Terza Rima
Write a Terza Rima, a poem of three-line stanzas in which the end-word of the সেকেন্ড line in the first tercet establishes the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet and so on. The poem can have as many stanzas as you’d like, and the rhyme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. continues through the final stanza.
325. A Poem for You
Write a poem of fourteen lines. Instead of using the first person (I), use only the সেকেন্ড person (you).
326. Turn It Over
Choose a word অথবা phrase আপনি find yourself saying often (e.g. like, totally, hate, really, kind of) and write a poem using it as much as possible, turning it over and over, repositioning it, extending it, playing with its uses and the parts of speech into which it can be shaped.
327. Just Say It
Choose a poem—a classic work অথবা something you've newly discovered—and memorize it. As আপনি do so, note the rhythms, sounds, and structure that help আপনি remember it. To test your memory, and in honor of National কবিতা Month, consider reciting it to a friend in person, leaving a recording of it on a friend's voicemail, অথবা sending an audio file of it to one অথবা আরো বন্ধু via e-mail.
328. Make a Collage
Make a collage inspired দ্বারা a working draft of one of your poems, using প্রতিমূর্তি from books, photographs, magazines, newspapers, and drawings. আপনি may incorporate words as well. Let the transformation of your poem into another medium inform a revision of the poem on the page.
329. Record the Dailies
Collect phrases and words that আপনি see throughout the দিন today. Arrange them on the page, using line breaks where they seem to naturally fall. Next, above the lines you’ve recorded, write words and phrases that are somehow related to those on the page, such as synomyms, antonyms, অথবা words that sound অথবা look similar. Rewrite what you’ve recorded replacing the new words with the old. Use this as the first draft of a poem and continue revising it into a finished draft.
330. Look and Listen
Today there are fifteen lines of কবিতা that will present themselves to আপনি in various ways. Some will be visual, some will be spoken. Look and listen carefully. Take the time to record them. Then refine them and use them to craft a poem.
331. Imaginary Friend
Write a poem in the form of a letter to an imaginary friend in which আপনি ask them for help that begins, Dear Friend. Keeping the person অথবা creature অথবা entity you’re লেখা to in mind, include details and প্রতিমূর্তি that reveal your imaginary friend’s characteristics as আপনি craft your entreaty.
332. The Form It Takes
As poet Ted Kooser writes in The কবিতা প্রথমপাতা Repair Manual: Practical উপদেশ for Beginning Poets (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), “When it comes to the form your poem takes, আপনি can determine it as আপনি write....As আপনি work on your poem, try to see what shape the কবিতা wants to assume.” Following Kooser’s advice, write a draft of a poem and analyze its structure. How many lines does it have? How many stanzas? How many stressed syllables per line? Look for a dominant pattern in what you’ve written and revise the poem to fit that pattern consistently.
333. Write a Villanelle
Choose two পছন্দ lines from a working draft of a poem that needs revision. Write a villanelle, using those lines for the refrains. See the Academy of American Poets' website for আরো about the villanelle form, a poem of nineteen lines made up of five stanzas with three lines each.
334. Text Me
Send a line of কবিতা to a friend via text message অথবা e-mail and ask her to রচনা a line in response. Collaborate on drafting a poem in this way, building it line দ্বারা line until আপনি both agree that it's reached its end. Using the final product as a draft, revise the poem and have your friend do the same. Compare your final drafts.
335. Clip Art
Using scissors, cut up one of your poems that needs revision into its lines অথবা parts of lines. Rearrange these clippings in various combinations and create a new draft. Write a revision of your poem based on this new draft.
336. After Robert Frost
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of American poet Robert Frost. To honor this day, read Frost's poem "Stopping দ্বারা Woods on a Snowy Evening" on the Academy of American Poets' website. Analyze the poem's structure, and write a poem with the same rhyme scheme and number of lines.
337. Playing With Definitions
Choose any word from the dictionary and read its definitions. Write a poem using only the language of these definitions. Try repeating them in different combinations and using line break to create unexpected phrases. Experiment with how far আপনি can push the limits of the language you're working with. Use the word you've chosen as the শিরোনাম of the poem.
338. Powers of Observation
Look out your window অথবা observe your surroundings and make a তালিকা of ten images. Choose the three that আপনি find most compelling and freewrite about them, exploring any memories অথবা associations they elicit. Put your freewriting exercise aside, and draft a poem that incorporates at least five of the প্রতিমূর্তি from your list.
339. This Is Just to Say
Think about something that আপনি did অথবা ব্যক্ত to someone that আপনি regret. Write a poem of apology, comprising five four-line stanzas, with the same number of stressed syllables in each line. Avoid sentimentality. Rely on images, rhythm, and structure to convey your regret.
340. Shakespearean Sonnet
Start the বছর off with one of Shakespeare’s পছন্দ forms. Write a sonnet, a poem comprising fourteen lines that incorporates the following rhyme scheme: a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. (For example, the words at the end of the first and third lines rhyme, etc.) Before আপনি begin, flip through any book and select seven words at random. Use these words, অথবা variations of them, in the poem.
341. Make a List
Write a poem that is a তালিকা of people, places, and/or things that আপনি long for.
342. কবিতা Prompt - Write an Anaphora poem. An Anaphora is "the repetition of a word অথবা expression several times within a clause অথবা within a paragraph". In কবিতা the repetition of the phrase can be just at the beginning of each line, setting the tone as a meditation অথবা a mantra, অথবা it can be utilized আরো subtlety within the poem. The poem can be free verse অথবা prose style.
343. কবিতা Prompt - Write a free verse poem using "sparrows".
344. কবিতা Prompt - Write a series of প্রশ্ন and উত্তর to রচনা a poem.
345. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that describes a walk through a house from the perspective of a child.
346. কবিতা Prompt - Write three different impressions of "saturation". (e.g.: color, sound, aroma, urban-ness, etc.)
347. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the prompt: "chain-link fence"
348. কবিতা Prompt - Write a three part poem using "metronome".
349. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem concerning the "absence" of something. Consider the absence as a positive, অথবা a negative.
350. কবিতা Prompt - তালিকা ten items that আপনি would buy at an auction, অথবা tag sale. Write a poem including those items. আপনি may chose to শিরোনাম your poem, "Things Found At An Auction". Variation, have someone else create a তালিকা for you.
351. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that starts with a one word title, two words in the first line, three in the next, and continues দ্বারা adding one word per line. (Variation: use as a prose exercise.)
352. কবিতা Prompt - "This and That"- Write a তালিকা of phrases such as "salt and pepper", "cats and dogs", "love and war". Write a poem with the first stanza about the first word and the সেকেন্ড stanza about the সেকেন্ড word.
353. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem based on the concept অথবা idea of a "Mobeus strip".
354. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that begins with a বিবরণ of an event, telling what appears to be happening. Then give a বিবরণ of what is really occurring.
355. কবিতা Prompt - As an exercise, write a solo "renga". (Not to argue the authenticity of a renga being written দ্বারা two poets - not one) A renga is a Japanese poetic form similar to haiku, but a series of stanzas linked দ্বারা an idea. Please visit these pages for a full, non-confrontational definition of renga:
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356. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using, "paper and chalk".
357. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the following title: "Another Language", অথবা "Translation".
358. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the following start: "What good is a day..."
359. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem about the "ultimate" poem, অথবা what a poem "should" do.
360. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem in the disguise of a postcard message. Continue দ্বারা লেখা a reply postcard message.
361. কবিতা Prompt - Create a poem using three trinkets. Such as, a shell, a silver charm, and a feather.
362. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the phrase "a foreign language".
363. কবিতা Prompt - On a slip of paper write a তালিকা of 15 "free association" words. Use the 15 words in a poem. Variation: Create and exchange a তালিকা with another person. Then use their তালিকা of words to write a poem.
364. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using, "how to...". For example, "how to write a poem", "how to break my heart"," how to distinguish a ফুল from a frog".
365. কবিতা Prompt - Write three shaped-verse poems. Shaped-verse poems are a form of "pattern poetry", where the letters, words, and lines of the poem are arranged to form a picture/outline of the subject of the poem. An example is a poem in the shape of a বড়দিন বৃক্ষ discussing your thoughts about বড়দিন itself, family traditions, and so on.
366. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that repeats a selected word in each line. Consider using foreign translations of the word. (cat, gato, catze).
367. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem with a seasonal theme.
368. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem about seasonings. For example, "Salt and Saffron".
369. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Paradise of Strangers".
370. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using, " Between Silences".
371. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using "Writers Anonymous" as your title. (Or, "Hi My Name Is ")
372. কবিতা Prompt - Transitory - Write a poem based on transitory things.
373. কবিতা Prompt - Make a তালিকা of your পছন্দ lines from poetry. Use these lines in a collage অথবা create a pocket journal that has one line per page. Memorize them. (And then, optionally, for আপনি Mark Strand fans, eat them.)
374. কবিতা Prompt - Write a Tercet. Examples:
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375. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem about something that "spirals".
376. কবিতা Prompt - Write a culinary poem celebrating food.
377. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that is representative of language/communication.
378. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem about a very small object.
379. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem using প্রতিমূর্তি of things that are connected, such as "paperclip(s)", অথবা "trains".
380. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that is about the "un-truth".
381. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem about things that are transparent.
382. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that starts at the end, moving backwards.
383. কবিতা Exercise - Write a villanelle, অথবা a terzanelle.
A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. (from link)
terzanelle
A terzanelle is a কবিতা form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima. It is nineteen lines total, with five triplets and a concluding quatrain. The rhyme scheme is as follows: Ending Type 1:fAFA' (from link)
384. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem using the theme of, "x-ray", অথবা seeing through layers.
385. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that focuses on sound.
386. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem about playing Jacks, Hopscotch, অথবা another such game.
387. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem in three parts about three different people and their interaction with an item that is the same. The object can be passed between them, অথবা it can be the "same" possession and not the "actual" object the other people have.
388. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that uses the style of a devotion and prayer.
389. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that is written in the style of magnetic poetry. For your word bank আপনি can use one অথবা two pages from a book, magazine অথবা newspaper. আপনি might want to make a photocopy of the pages and cut the words apart, অথবা just transcribe them randomly to your word bank.
390. কবিতা Exercise - Write a poem that is based on a painting. (You can find many classic paintings here: link)
Example: Pieter Brueghel, The Fall of Icarus
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391. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem that refers to "Romeo and Juliet".
392. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Lines of Conversation".
393. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "Love Poem Number 137".
394. কবিতা Prompt - Write a poem using the title, "You Need to Have a Plan".
395. Write a poem about how আপনি assembled a puzzle অথবা game from your childhood. Focus on the imagery, the pieces, intention and focus.
396. Write a প্রণয় poem to your পছন্দ book. Be sure to flip through the book, focusing on what আপনি found was most meaningful.
397. Write a poem that incorporates both the view of the antagonist and protagonist in a fairy tale.
398. Ask your বন্ধু to give আপনি five যেভাবে খুশী phrases. The phrases can be fragments অথবা sentences, and should not reference চলচ্চিত্র if possible. Write a poem that incorporates these five phrases.
399. Think of a course আপনি have always wanted to take. Write a poem that focuses on why আপনি find this class to be appealing অথবা interesting. Again, this should not be a class আপনি have taken yet. আপনি want to write a poem that captures your raw level interest in the course.
400. Write a poem dedicated to the dreams আপনি remember the least. These do not have to be dreams আপনি wish to remember, but write to them regardless.
401. তালিকা the three most inconvenient things that happened to আপনি today. Now write a poem about at least one of them.
402. Write a poem about your experience in some type of vehicle used for long distance such as a car, airplane অথবা a train. Where were আপনি going? Was it comfortable? Who did আপনি meet অথবা talk to? Did আপনি forget anything অথবা find something? Did আপনি arrive at the right destination?
403. Find an unpublished poem that আপনি haven’t looked at in years. Randomly choose three lines from the poem. Write a completely different using those lines.
404. Think of a product অথবা a service আপনি dislike. Imagine আপনি have the opportunity to convince them to take that product অথবা service off the market. Write a poem that incorporates your message about this product অথবা service.
405. Take an image that আপনি can recall from the prior week. Use this image to help আপনি write a poem.
406. Think about something specific a loved one does for you. This can be anything from receiving back rubs from your partner অথবা getting seasonal cards from your aunt. Write a poem that incorporates the feelings and প্রতিমূর্তি associated with this event.
407. Pick your পছন্দ খুঁজুন engine. Perform a খুঁজুন on any word আপনি can think of. Choose a word that does not have particular importance to you. Read through the first two pages that come up in the খুঁজুন engine. Pick two sentences and write a poem incorporating those sentences.
408. Think of at least three people from your hometown that আপনি haven’t talked to in a long time. Write a poem that is aimed to address these people for the first time in years.
409. Think of the best independent restaurant আপনি have eaten at recently. Write a poem about the flavors and sensations of the meal and drinks.
410. Think about a coworker অথবা colleague আপনি find distasteful. Write a poem about how this person saves your life.
411. Write a poem that admits a dark secret of yours.
412. Write a poem from the perspective of a creature that lives in a cave অথবা in the deep sea.
413. Listen to a song আপনি really enjoy. Focus on your most পছন্দ part of the music. Write a poem about all the sensations, images, feelings, lyrics and other components of that specific part of the song.
414. Imagine yourself living 300 অথবা আরো years ago. আপনি still have the same personality and body. Write a poem about yourself and your interactions and with the people of that time.
415. Write a poem about the frustration অথবা stresses a pet must feel. Pets could include household pets, circus animals, zoo জন্তু জানোয়ার and so on.
416. Think about a political issue আপনি strongly disagree with. Now write a poem where the aim is to and convince yourself to actually agree with that point.
417. Write a poem about what আপনি expect the end of the world might be like.
418. Write a poem that introduces a book আপনি dislike. আপনি can even use a poem that আপনি aren’t particularly happy with. Write a poem introducing that poem to readers.
419. Write a poem about what আপনি would do if your ex-boyfriend অথবা ex-girlfriend was transformed into a giant stone animal.
420. Write a poem about an animate and inanimate object falling in প্রণয় with each other.
421. Picture a beautiful landscape. Write a poem about that landscape.
422. Take a look at a map. Randomly select a town অথবা city আপনি have never been to. Write a poem about what আপনি think it might be like visiting that place for the first time.
423. Write a poem from the perspective of someone who is from another culture.
424. Take a topic আপনি feel uncomfortable লেখা about. Write a poem about that topic.
425. Write a poem about a historical battle that really reverberates with you.
426. Look up some very rare ফুলেরডালি in at least two different countries. Write a poem that incorporates the features of these plants and their many parts.
427. Pick a topic in the computing sciences that আপনি know absolutely nothing about. Do a quick খুঁজুন on it, and spend at least 30 মিনিট trying to understand it from your perspective. Write a poem either about the experience অথবা the topic.
428. Find one of your পছন্দ recipes. Write a poem that utilizes some of the steps of that recipe.
429. Write a poem about the way a specific room changes throughout a year. Focus on the objects in the room, lighting, dirt অথবা dust, stains, smells and all the other parts that make a room.
430. Write a poem about some aspect of the grieving অথবা bereavement process. The loss, anger, loneliness, acceptance and moving on are all potential topics.
431. Write a poem about positive transformations One example might be the moment that someone আপনি thought was unattractive অথবা plain was suddenly beautiful.
432. Find a cause seeking donations in your community. Imagine this cause is having an auction to raise donations. Write a poem about that auction. Mention if আপনি would bid and what আপনি would bid.
433. Write a poem designed for the personals section in a newspaper অথবা online listing. Try to incorporate the type of লেখা typically used in a personals section.
434. Write a poem about a piece of clothing আপনি would নকশা if আপনি had the resources and poem.
435. Write a poem about the moment when আপনি lose a necessary piece that is needed to make something electronic work. Some examples might include losing a charger for a computer অথবা সঙ্গীত player.
436. Write a poem in which আপনি ultimately apologize to someone অথবা something.
437. Try to remember some of the most memorable কবিতা readings আপনি have attended. Write a poem saying thank আপনি to those readings and the readers.
438. Check your local news for any new gallery exhibits in the area. Attend the exhibit and write a poem that discusses some elements of the exhibit.
439. Write a persona poem on someone that is very controversial. Consider লেখা a poem on a serial killer অথবা a famous gang member.
440. Go outside and note at least three different cars on your street. Incorporate the make and model of the car, color and other features of the car into a poem.
441. Write a poem about cloning someone who is recently deceased. Think of various attributes of the সামগ্রিক cloning process such as personality differences, health problems, controversy, and the comparisons of the deceased to the new clone.
442. Write a poem from the perspective of someone who dislikes what আপনি do professionally.
443. Write a poem about how আপনি find happiness through something that actually makes আপনি deeply unhappy.
444. Look at the last 10 poems আপনি have written. Pay attention to the ending lines. Use one of those ending lines to begin a new poem.
445. Use the word Pattern in the first line and/or the last line of your poem.
446. Write a poem that begins with আপনি waking up.
447. Write a poem that begins with a proclamation. If আপনি need a phrase to get your juices going, try “I will”.
448. Write the final line to your poem first, and then write the poem to get to that ending. I am choosing to end my poem with “His hallucinations make him giggle” which others are welcome to use.
449. Pick three words that আপনি absolutely প্রণয় the sound of and set out to use them in your poem.
450. Use the same (or similar) words in both your first line and last line, but change the order অথবা the meaning of the words from the first line to the last line.
451. Write a poem that involves an animal.
452. Write a তালিকা poem about things আপনি have done in your life.
453. Use the word “secret” twice in your poem.
454. Use a letter count as a constraint for your poetry, either লেখা a brand new poem অথবা rewriting an old poem to fit the new pattern. আপনি can either count the spaces and punctuation between words as letters অথবা count only the actual letters. Keep in mind that আপনি don’t have to use the exact same number in every line, আপনি can also develop at pattern such as 20-25-20-25.
455. Write অথবা rewrite a greeting card poem so that is has meaning to you, অথবা at least is funny.
456. A Ritual Poem takes a ritual (real অথবা imagined) and brings a sense of meaning and reflection to the ritual it describes. Here are some steps to follow (a ritual poem ritual):
1. Pick an element of life that has অথবা deserves a ritual
2. Decide the result আপনি would want the ritual to produce
3. Think of the actions আপনি would take to achieve the result
4. Turn the actions into steps অথবা commands
457. Write a poem using Skeltonic Verse.
458. Write a poem about a specific but minor memory আপনি have from আরো than five, but less than ten years ago.
459. Write a Tanka. Feel free to write আরো than one if আপনি like.
460. Write a definition poem. A definition poem takes a word অথবা a concept and attempts to define it, provide perspective, redefine it, অথবা create a definitive example of it.
461. Write a poem that is set at অথবা near where আপনি live.
462. Write a poem in the form of a letter (epistle).
463. Write a poem that begins and ends with three single syllable words.
464. Write a poem that begins with a line of উপদেশ অথবা instruction, such as don’t give up অথবা take a left at the willow tree.
465. September 21st is the last দিন of summer in the northern hemisphere and the last দিন of winter in the southern hemisphere. With that in mind, write a poem in which the seasons play a role.
466. Write a poem in which a similar অথবা identical phrase is repeated three অথবা আরো times throughout the poem.
467. Write a poem using iambic pentameter. If আপনি aren’t familiar with Iambic pentameter, it is discussed in full here.
468. Write a poem that begins with the word “I”.
469. Write a poem as that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.
470. Write a poem about a natural event.
471. Use one of the lists of words above অথবা pick your own morpheme and use it to add adnomination to your poetry.
472. Pick two অথবা three words from your last poem use them as the first three words of this poem.
473. Write a poem that gets shorter with each line.
474. Write a poem about the end of something.
475. Write a poem about something আপনি believe.
476. Write a poem that includes at least one বিবরণ of an object that is six অথবা আরো words long.
477. Write a poem that uses some sort of meter. If আপনি want a challenge, attempt a meter আপনি haven’t worked with before. For an extra added challenge, try to work in the word belly.
478. Write a Blues Sonnet:
1. Write 5 thematically similar heroic couplets of iambic pentameter.
2. In first four, repeat first line of each couplet, yielding the 14 lines of the sonnet.
3. Then, if desired, modify middle lines, of the stanzas without disturbing rhyme অথবা rhythm to strengthen the stanza and give variety.
4. Get out a blues recording and have fun গান গাওয়া your blues song!
479. Write a poem about an event in your life that আপনি have strong feelings about (it doesn’t have to be painful) without stating how আপনি feel about the event. If আপনি want an extra challenge, end every third line with the letter “R”.
480. Write a poetic parable. Feel free to play with the form. Sometimes it is আরো interesting when the lesson is just a bit absurd.
481. Write about something in your life that আপনি do every day. If আপনি want an added challenge, make the first and the last lines the same অথবা similar.
482. Write a blank verse poem. Blank verse has meter, but no rhyme. The typical meter for blank verse is iambic pentameter, but আপনি can try other meters as well. If আপনি want an added challenge, include the word “line”.
483. Write a Pantoum. Feel free to experiment with the form until আপনি write something to your own liking. If আপনি enjoyed this, try a sestina অথবা villanelle.
484. Write a poem that tells a story. For an added challenge, use a word count. Write four stanzas, each with 30 words.
485. Write a poem as if it were an entry in someone’s journal অথবা diary অথবা even their Twitter account. If আপনি want an added challenge, your stanzas to 145 characters so they mirror the limitations of texting.
486. Go outdoors and get some fresh air. Find a comfortable spot and write a poem. If আপনি want to try a tanka (or a few) go for it.
487. Write a poem in ten minutes. It should have at least 100 words. For an added challenge, work in the word “speed”.
488. Create your own found poem. If আপনি are looking for inspiration, use গুগুল News to find an প্রবন্ধ to your liking.
489. Write a poem that uses exactly the same number of characters on every line. আপনি can pick the length, but once আপনি start আপনি have to stick to it. For an extra challenge, try লেখা about an event that has happened in the past 24 hour.
490. Write a poem that ends with the word “quiet”.
491. Either use a set of hyponyms as the structure for your poem অথবা write a poem around the phrase, “He was blue, she was a rabbit.”
492. Write a poem that uses something other than traditional end rhyme.
493. Create a poem that uses one of the following word combinations (they don’t have to be in the same line):
1. boot, tune, fool
2. but, feet, knot
3. kit, tap, pock
4. seize, fourth, thighs
494. Write about something আপনি can see from the window of your home.
495. Write a poem about a place আপনি have been অথবা a journey আপনি have taken.
496. Call an old friend and write a poem after the conversation
497. Find an original way to describe a chair and make that the first line of your poem.
498. Write about the first time আপনি did something.
499. Write a poem that demonstrates strong emotion without ever stating what that emotion is.
500. Write a poem about a contest, a win, অথবা a loss.
501. Write a poem as if it were a letter to a friend.
502. Include the word right অথবা rights in your poem.
503. Start your poem with a piece of advice.
504. Write a poem about your childhood. Explore an actual event that had some emotional significance to you. Avoid using any বিবরণ of how আপনি felt about the event then অথবা how আপনি feel about it now. Instead, try to make the emotion of the event come through in your descriptions of what happened. Feel free to post your poem in the মতামত অথবা on your own site with a link back to here. This will give other people the opportunity to read your poem.
505. Write about an event in your life that happened within the past week. Take some time to think about the week and look for event that has some emotional meaning for you, but not so much that it would be painful for আপনি to write about. Sometimes smaller moments have আরো meaning. Feel free to post your poem in the মতামত অথবা on your own site with a link back to here. This will give other people the opportunity to read your poem.
506. Find a news অথবা opinion প্রবন্ধ that was published on the web this week. I recommend using গুগুল News because it can take আপনি just about anywhere. Look for a story that has some emotional অথবা philosophical impact on আপনি and use that story as the basis for your poem. If আপনি post your poem here, be sure to post a link to the original প্রবন্ধ so we can see the inspiration!
507. Get out of the house and write in a new place. Write about the place আপনি choose to go to. Don’t just rely on what আপনি see. Describe the smells, the tastes and the sounds if আপনি can. Try to give your readers a full picture of the place আপনি choose.
508. Write a persona poem that incorporates one of the past two concepts. It should either address a social issue অথবা it should provide a strong sense of place. One great way to do the latter is to write a poem in a public place, and to observe the people around আপনি until আপনি find someone interesting that আপনি can imagine a back-story for.
509. Take at least five মিনিট to meditate in a quiet room free of outside influences before আপনি write today’s poem. Try to clear your head of stray thoughts. Once আপনি feel like আপনি are clear and calm, write your poem. Let the topic be about whatever comes to mind after your meditation. If আপনি have never meditated before, simply sit in a chair with your eyes closed and try to relax.
510. Write a তালিকা poem that uses a single line for each item on the list. Feel free to choose one of the topics above, অথবা use anything else that comes to mind. As always, post the poem in the মতামত section if আপনি would like to share it.
511. Write an elegy about a person অথবা event that is meaningful to you. আপনি don’t necessarily have to approach the most tragic event in your life. Don’t try to take on an event that is still too difficult for আপনি to deal with. Look for something that আপনি can handle.
512. Write a poem using a specific meter. The meter can be of your own choosing অথবা even your own making, as long as আপনি put a pattern into place. As always, feel free to post your poem in the মতামত section of this post.
513. Write a three অথবা আরো stanza poem that uses a metered style for the first two stanzas and a non-metered format for the remaining stanzas. As always, feel free to post your poem in the মতামত section for others to see.
514. Read a poet আপনি don’t like. Try to figure out what they do that upsets আপনি and determine whether অথবা not this assessment is fair. Try to think of ways that আপনি would approach the same subject matter using your style. Write a poem that addresses some of the same subject / style / tone of the poet আপনি dislike but do it in your own style.
515. Write a poem using syllabic verse. আপনি can assign length ether দ্বারা line অথবা stanza. If আপনি are stuck for a way to begin, start with this two-word ten-syllable line: Incompatible Participation
516. Read a poet আপনি don’t like. Try to figure out what they do that upsets আপনি and determine whether অথবা not this assessment is fair. Try to think of ways that আপনি would approach the same subject matter using your style. Write a poem that addresses some of the same subject / style / tone of the poet আপনি dislike but do it in your own style.
517. Today is a two-part assignment. The first part is to think about your method of লেখা poetry. The সেকেন্ড part is to shake up your process. If আপনি have a lot of structure, try loosening up. If আপনি write very loosely, try adding some structure to the process. Find a new place to write অথবা use a different tool. The change doesn’t have to be major, but if আপনি post your poem, please tell us what আপনি changed.
518. Write a poem that uses at least two different forms of repetition. Try to embrace at least one form of repetition that আপনি don’t ordinarily use.
519. Write a poem that follows the three rules of the imagists.
1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective অথবা objective.
2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
3. As regarding rhythm: to রচনা in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.
520. Revisit a পূর্ববর্তি poem, perhaps one আপনি especially liked অথবা one আপনি had trouble with, and write another poem following those same parameters.
521. Wikipedia’s যেভাবে খুশী Button is a great and magical thing. Click it and write about whatever subject comes up.
522. Include the words “formal” and “casual” at some point in your poem.
523. Write a poem that has a variable line length rather than a set meter. Use either enjammed অথবা endstopped lines.
524. Write a poem that begins with a negative image অথবা statement and ends with a positive image অথবা statement.
525. Write a three stanza poem that shows a progression with each stanza. The three stanzas should serve as a beginning, middle and end respectively. It might help to picture the poem as a three act play.
526. Try something that scares আপনি (just a little) and then write a poem about it.
527. Write a poem that discusses a real moment in your life without discussing its larger meaning অথবা attempting to lead the reader to a conclusion.
528. Include a verb in every line of your poem.
529. Write a poem that begins and ends with the same word.
530. Write the first draft of your poem in paragraph form and then change it into a free verse poem. Don’t be surprised if আপনি have to change lines, words and phrases. That is a part of the process.
531. Look at some old photographs and write about a memory অথবা a thought that they give you.
532. Write a poem that either uses no words longer than five letters অথবা no words shorter than five letters.
533. Write the final line of your poem first, then figure out a way to get there.
534. I feel like ending with something technical but random. Don’t include any word with a single “A” in it, but do include at least one word with two “A”s in it.
535. Write a poem that takes place inside a vehicle (car, truck, train, plane, boat, etc.)
536. Write a poem in which আপনি use three different words for the same অথবা a similar color.
537. Write a poem that uses two অথবা আরো different settings / locations.
538. Write a poem that includes at least three different flavors and two odors.
539. Write a poem in which each line has six words and makes a statement অথবা at least expresses a complete thought.
540. Write a poem in which every stanza either begins with a প্রশ্ন অথবা ends with a question.
541. Write a poem in the form of a joke.
542. Write a poem that takes place at a public gathering such as a meeting, a carnival, a sporting event অথবা a concert.
543. Write a poem about building অথবা creating something দ্বারা hand.
544. Write a poem that involves cutting, chopping অথবা dividing something.
545. Write a poem about having to defend yourself অথবা someone else.
546. Write a poem in which আপনি discuss three things that আপনি অথবা your persona wants.
547. Write a poem that repeatedly uses numbers.
548. Write a poem that involves a plan.
549. Write a poem that take place at a specific time of the day.
550. Write a poem that involves consequences.
551. Write a poem that takes place in অথবা otherwise involves a classroom.
552. Write a poem about waiting for a specific event.
553. Write a poem about getting হারিয়ে গেছে অথবা losing something.
554. Write a poem about getting অথবা sending a message (postcard, letter, phone call, email)
555. Write a poem that includes something that malfunctions অথবা breaks down.
556. Write a poem about training for something অথবা working towards a distant goal.
557. Write a poem about a person অথবা a place that has several different names (it’s actually quite common).
558. Write a poem in which something gets opened অথবা closed.
559. Write a poem in which something gets faked অথবা simulated.
560. Write a poem about a rivalry.
561. Write a poem about a place that has changed considerably over time (construction, destruction, renovation, disrepair, etc.)
562. Write a poem that involves flirtation.
563. Write a poem that includes a path, a trail, অথবা a map.
564. Write a poem that involves a long-term relationship (love, friendship, family, group, etc.)