April is National Poetry Month and many poetry societies and organizations offer poetry activities including prompts to write our hearts out during the month!
With that in mind, Poets Northwest will offer a prompt each day during the month - sometimes a word, sometimes a phrase, sometimes a sentence starter. Feel free to respond in prose if that works; plenty of prose becomes good poetry. Go where you will with it and enjoy:)
[Prompts will be posted the night before so early risers can access them.]
April 1st - welcome
April 2nd - morning sunlight
April 3rd - cowering in a corner
April 4th - worms
April 5th - like a crow, I …
April 6th - bluebonnets and paintbrush
April 7th - shadows at dusk
April 8th - increasing speed
April 9th - Divine vision
April 10th - tomorrow I will…
April 11th - when I sneeze
April 12th - looking back
April 13th - itchy and alone
April 14th - azure – sapphire – indigo
April 15th - staring across the …
April 16th - fingers in her ears, yelling lalalalalalalala
April 17th - try your hand at a pantoum or a triolet
April 18th - unfinished business
April 19th - giggles and guffaws
April 20th - in translation
April 21st - roll back the rock
April 22nd - crosses on the lawn
April 23rd - undulating
April 24th - write a tanka
April 25th - sudden tears
April 26th - slinky dresses and bow ties
April 27th - on the horizon
April 28th - “over the river and through the woods…”
April 29th - trees talk to me
April 30th - baby birds
April 2nd - morning sunlight
April 3rd - cowering in a corner
April 4th - worms
April 5th - like a crow, I …
April 6th - bluebonnets and paintbrush
April 7th - shadows at dusk
April 8th - increasing speed
April 9th - Divine vision
April 10th - tomorrow I will…
April 11th - when I sneeze
April 12th - looking back
April 13th - itchy and alone
April 14th - azure – sapphire – indigo
April 15th - staring across the …
April 16th - fingers in her ears, yelling lalalalalalalala
April 17th - try your hand at a pantoum or a triolet
April 18th - unfinished business
April 19th - giggles and guffaws
April 20th - in translation
April 21st - roll back the rock
April 22nd - crosses on the lawn
April 23rd - undulating
April 24th - write a tanka
April 25th - sudden tears
April 26th - slinky dresses and bow ties
April 27th - on the horizon
April 28th - “over the river and through the woods…”
April 29th - trees talk to me
April 30th - baby birds
