Here's a quick compilation of all the SingPoWriMo 2014 prompts thus far.
1
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
* debouched* liberal* looming* exclusive* unnatural* trade
2
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
* battle * better* crack * recent* favour * fly
3
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
* close * long* remember * race* separate * sanction
4
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
* set * force * lick * skin * fear * land
~Bonus 1: Use only words of one syllable in your poem
~Bonus 2: Do not use the words "a", "and" or "the" in your poem
~Bonus 3: Use four or more different meanings of any of these words.
5
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
*Beside *undone *virgin *balloon *return *intact
Bonus 1: Begin every line with the same word
Bonus 2: Use only words of two syllables
Bonus 3: Rhyme.
6
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
*mouth *rose *sleep *quiet *deny *regret
Bonus 1: Write in the style of your favourite poet/songwriter.
Bonus 2: Have someone recognise who it is in the comments.
Weekend Insanity Bonus: Do not repeat ANY word in your poem.
7
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
*game *plot *amok *fix *row *flirt
Bonus 1: Your poem has 10 or more lines.
Bonus 2: Your lines have 10 or more words each.
Bonus 3: Each of your prompt words are used more than once.
8
Write a poem about a beginning. It could be about any kind of start, the beginning of the day, the beginning of a new relationship, the beginning of grief, the beginning of a commute or journey, etc.
Bonus 1: The first line of your poem should be the last line of a poem you've written in the last 7 days.
Bonus 2: Your poem should start and end with the same line
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10
Write a poem about airplanes, airports or anything related to air travel.
BonusChallenge 1: do not include the words "air", "fly", "plane", "wing", and "sky" or any variants of them ("airport", "flight", etc)
1
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
* debouched* liberal* looming* exclusive* unnatural* trade
2
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
* battle * better* crack * recent* favour * fly
3
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
* close * long* remember * race* separate * sanction
4
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
* set * force * lick * skin * fear * land
~Bonus 1: Use only words of one syllable in your poem
~Bonus 2: Do not use the words "a", "and" or "the" in your poem
~Bonus 3: Use four or more different meanings of any of these words.
5
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
*Beside *undone *virgin *balloon *return *intact
Bonus 1: Begin every line with the same word
Bonus 2: Use only words of two syllables
Bonus 3: Rhyme.
6
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
*mouth *rose *sleep *quiet *deny *regret
Bonus 1: Write in the style of your favourite poet/songwriter.
Bonus 2: Have someone recognise who it is in the comments.
Weekend Insanity Bonus: Do not repeat ANY word in your poem.
7
Write a poem that includes the following six words:
*game *plot *amok *fix *row *flirt
Bonus 1: Your poem has 10 or more lines.
Bonus 2: Your lines have 10 or more words each.
Bonus 3: Each of your prompt words are used more than once.
8
Write a poem about a beginning. It could be about any kind of start, the beginning of the day, the beginning of a new relationship, the beginning of grief, the beginning of a commute or journey, etc.
Bonus 1: The first line of your poem should be the last line of a poem you've written in the last 7 days.
Bonus 2: Your poem should start and end with the same line
9
The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of increasing syllable length from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 to 10 syllables.
Here are other variations of the form:
Reversed Etheree: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Double Etheree: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Double Revered Etheree: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Reversed Etheree: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Double Etheree: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Double Revered Etheree: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Today's challenge involves writing an Etheree.
Bonus Challenge 1: Write a Double Etheree or a Double Reversed Etheree
Bonus Challenge 1: Write a Double Etheree or a Double Reversed Etheree
10
Today's poem should be a conversation with a famous dead person.
11
Write a poem that starts by situating an object doing something in an unlikely location.
12
The challenge today involves making a blackout poem from your favourite poem.
If you don't have a favourite poem, then use any article from the newspaper/a passage from a book/ any text at all.
Post a picture of your blackout poem to share it.
If you don't have a favourite poem, then use any article from the newspaper/a passage from a book/ any text at all.
Post a picture of your blackout poem to share it.
13
Today's challenge is to find a line in a poem in this group posted by someone else and to write a poem in response to that line. Feel free to do what you'd like with the line. For example, you could actually incorporate it into your poem or use it as a quotation above your poem.
14
Write a poem about yourself in which nothing you say is true.
15
"Write a poem from the point of view of someone of a different race.
Bonus Challenge 1: No colors or words describing color/shade (e.g. pale/dark)
Bonus Challenge 2: No proper names (usually capitalized nouns).
Bonus Challenge 3: No non-English words."
Bonus Challenge 2: No proper names (usually capitalized nouns).
Bonus Challenge 3: No non-English words."
16
Write a poem in a different language.
17
Write a poem from the point of view of the opposite gender
BonusChallenge1: ...and different sexual orientation
18
Write a poem without the letter E!
bonus challenge 1: at least 10 lines
kamikaze bonus challenge 2: without the letters RSTLN as well.
kamikaze bonus challenge 2: without the letters RSTLN as well.
19
Write a poem about your favorite food
bonus challenge 1: or, have your favorite food write a poem about you
20
Write a poem about airplanes, airports or anything related to air travel.
BonusChallenge 1: do not include the words "air", "fly", "plane", "wing", and "sky" or any variants of them ("airport", "flight", etc)
21
Rewrite (or parody) a famous or favorite poem.
22
Today's challenge is to write a liwuli, an ancient and esoteric poetic form originating in south-east asia. However, when properly executed, it is one of the most beautiful of forms. Extremely rare and nearly impossible to find on the internet, the liwuli is a nearly-lost form that we are going to try to resurrect for today's exercise.
A liwuli consists of 3 stanzas: (1) the first stanza contains exactly 31 syllables in the form of a prose poem, and should be phrased entirely in terms of instructions. (2) the second stanza consists of 14 syllables, and is broken into 3 lines (the length of each line is up to the writer as long as its 14 syllables). (3) the third stanza consists of 10 syllables, and is broken into 2 lines. the third stanza should be phrased entirely in terms of questions.
23
Write a poem about nature.
#bonuschallenge1: choose a single color (not green) and shape your poem around this color. eg if you chose purple you can write about grapes and brinjals etc.
#bonuschallenge2: no verbs
#bonuschallenge3: submit it to Desmond's anthology, never never lala land by squircle line press.
http://www.squirclelinepress.org/never-never-lalaland.html
http://www.squirclelinepress.org/never-never-lalaland.html
24
Write a poem incorporating 1 line each from 3 of your favorite songs.
25
Write a poem without verbs.
26
Write a poem in two parts.
part 1: present a point of view.
part 2: present the opposing point of view.
part 2: present the opposing point of view.
yes, it is an argumentative essay without intro and conclusion.
#bonuschallenge: write each part as a haiku, tanka, liwuli, or other poetic form.
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27
write a poem of at least ten lines where the last word of every line is the also the first word of the next line. the last word of the poem should also be the first word of the poem.
#weekendinsanitychallenge: instead, write a poem of at least ten lines where the last letter of every word is the first letter of the next word. the last letter of the poem is the first letter of the poem.
28
today's challenge is about giving advice.
write a poem entitled: HOW TO WIN AT ______
(e.g. FINANCE, HEALTH, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT/WATER/NATURAL RESOURCES etc)
(e.g. FINANCE, HEALTH, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT/WATER/NATURAL RESOURCES etc)
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The challenge is to make a found poem.
