Poetry Blog
Today’s prompt invites something beautifully structured yet deeply personal: write a poem where every stanza carries the same number of lines—steady as breath, consistent as a heartbeat—and let it guide the reader somewhere. Not just across words, but inward. Instruction becomes ritual. Form becomes a …
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There’s a long-standing tradition in poetry—dating back to Horace—called ars poetica, or “the art of poetry.” It asks a simple but loaded question: why do we write? For some, poetry is beauty. For others, it’s truth. For me, it’s survival. Today’s poem doesn’t soften that …
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The waves don’t ask forgiveness, don’t wait for your pain—
they just keep rolling, steady and wild again…
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 …
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NaPoWriMo Day 8 Prompt for the day is… Use repetition as your driving force today. Choose a simple phrase and return to it throughout your poem. Each time it appears, let it shift—contradict it, unravel it, or deepen its meaning in a new way. Allow …
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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