no prompt today. just went through an unexpected medical experience last night and wondered what it would be like to survive such a thing on obsidian. when the planetians arrived, […]
Category: Poetry
tell me of love (15/30)
prompt: write a poem that addresses itself or some aspect of its self (i.e. “Dear Poem,”) queen aya sits alone, surrounded by her historical poems in the obsidian creation archives. […]
say no more (14/30)
prompt: write a poem that takes the form of a dialogue. what follows is isolated from e—‘s memories shortly before aya’s mind sweep. … is baya asleep there’s something to […]
Baya (13/30)
Prompt: write a riddle. i tried to but mostly i just wanted to tell the birth of baya (bay-yah), the first child born to women, the first child of obsidian. […]
the first time i saw obsidian [planetian memoir] (12/30)
Describe in great detail your favorite room, place, meal, day, or person. You can do this in paragraph form. Now cut unnecessary words like articles and determiners (a, the, that) […]
Read More… from the first time i saw obsidian [planetian memoir] (12/30)
upon being discovered (11/30)
just finished my 8th event in five days and today’s official prompt feels too hard for me but i do have a poem. this is from aya’s last journal, which […]
principles of obsidian, a new world (10/30)
write an abecedarian poem – a poem with a structure derived from the alphabet. … when other people came to the planet that queens aya and e— had discovered, there […]
the first child (9/30)
Write a visual poem. I will attempt to write a poem shaped like a pregnant queen. … shh she is stunning sleeping small i feel humbled expansive feel all miraculous […]
counter lesson on currency (8/30)
write a palinode. And what’s that? It’s a poem in which the poet retracts a statement made in an earlier poem. counter lesson on currency yesterday queen aya taught you […]
lesson on currency (7/30)
today’s prompt: write about money! It could be about not having enough, having too much (a nice kind of problem to have), the smell, or feel, or sensory aspects of […]