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 - one, each and every one
April 2nd - cacophony
April 3rd - a backward glance
April 4th - a wheeze, a cough
April 5th - honey lips
April 6th - if I close my eyes ...
April 7th - from Shakespeare, “the fault is not in our stars…”
April 8th - personify the color white
April 9th - when the rain begins to fall
April 10th - winds of change
April 11th - the texture of disappointment
April 12th - I heard the sound of
April 13th - Ladybug, ladybug
April 14th - Like a frog, I
April 15th - the color of his/her eyes
April 16th - I could not survive without
April 17th - the taste of joy
April 18th - stinging nettles and prickly pear
April 19th - my toes remind me
April 20th - solace
April 21st - high in the sky
April 22nd - without water
April 23rd - I have heard the voice of an angel
April 24th - under the bed
April 25th - through tiers of clouds
April 26th - skittery as a nervous cat
April 27th - my daddy taught me
April 28th - when the clock chimes
April 29th - I have never enjoyed
April 30th - if pride were an animal
April 2nd - cacophony
April 3rd - a backward glance
April 4th - a wheeze, a cough
April 5th - honey lips
April 6th - if I close my eyes ...
April 7th - from Shakespeare, “the fault is not in our stars…”
April 8th - personify the color white
April 9th - when the rain begins to fall
April 10th - winds of change
April 11th - the texture of disappointment
April 12th - I heard the sound of
April 13th - Ladybug, ladybug
April 14th - Like a frog, I
April 15th - the color of his/her eyes
April 16th - I could not survive without
April 17th - the taste of joy
April 18th - stinging nettles and prickly pear
April 19th - my toes remind me
April 20th - solace
April 21st - high in the sky
April 22nd - without water
April 23rd - I have heard the voice of an angel
April 24th - under the bed
April 25th - through tiers of clouds
April 26th - skittery as a nervous cat
April 27th - my daddy taught me
April 28th - when the clock chimes
April 29th - I have never enjoyed
April 30th - if pride were an animal