Poetry Blog
Day 24 of Na/GloPoWriMo is here ✍️🔥 Today’s prompt invited us to stretch language in multiple directions at once—layering metaphors onto a single image, shifting tone, pausing to define a word, and then circling back to where we began. It’s a challenge in control and …
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What’s so good about Thursday? Well—during Na/GloPoWriMo, it’s another reason to write. ✍️🍂🔥 Day 23 brings us into the world of form with the villanelle—a structure built on repetition, rhythm, and restraint. Inspired by Kiki Petrosino’s “Nursery,” today’s challenge is to create something that echoes …
Read More Happy Wednesday, and welcome back to Day 22 of Na/GloPoWriMo 🔥🥃 Today’s prompt leans into something both playful and deceptively deep—writing a poem where the speaker is in conversation with themselves. Inspired by Jaswinder Bolina’s “Mood Ring,” this idea of duality—of being both the voice …
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Five petals open like a hand—
the iris speaks in silence,
a messenger of hope rooted in grief,
blooming between worlds.
Today’s prompt invites us to bridge poetry and technology, where ancient themes meet modern textures: love as a read receipt, grief as an undeleted voicemail, memory as something stored but rarely revisited. Poetry has always strengthened with us, and today’s piece leans into that tension—where …
Read More Today’s prompt pulls us into memory—the kind that feels cinematic when we look back on it. Between Kavya Janani U’s striking blackout poem and the reflections on (mis)translation by Yuki Tanaka, there’s a clear thread today: how the smallest choices—what we remove, what we keep, …
Read MoreThe wheel of the year turned like a slow tide, and here we stand at its close — rich with stories, hardened by truth, softened by grace. In the quiet places between sirens and silence, 2025 became one of reckoning and resolution. This year I …
Read MoreToday’s prompt was to try writing a ghazal, a traditional poetic form often used for love poems. Each couplet must stand on its own while repeating a refrain.
Read MoreToday’s NaPoWriMo prompt: Write a poem explaining why you are not a work of art. Mine? A chaotic self-portrait in sound. I am not a symphony.
Read MoreBy @RWhiteAuthor Today’s #NaPoWriMo prompt asked poets to explore the taste of something—through texture, sound, and emotion. Inspired by the spice that stirs both comfort and memory, “Cinnamon” captures the burn behind nostalgia and the golden weight of something half-remembered but wholly felt. Row Column …
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