prompt: write a poem about bridges. A bridge is a powerful metaphor, and when you start looking for bridges in poems, you find them everywhere. Your poem could be about […]
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24-27/30, poems
catching up on poems. home to e— 24/30 going off prompt to share queen aya’s first love poem of her second affair with e— in the end coming home was […]
obsidian is the world (22/30)
Write a pastoral poem (a Shepherd or shepherdess on nature and love) (on earth day, a poem about loving a planet) … baya is floating the vertical fields she sings […]
Redacted (21/30)
Our prompt for today (optional, as always) is an old favorite – the erasure! This involves taking a pre-existing text and blacking out or erasing words, while leaving the placement […]
obsidian knows it (20/30)
prompt: write a poem that states the things you know. … a human footstep is light except when they are crying when they sleep lovers are not separate the child […]
baya sings (19/30)
prompt: write a landay. Landays are 22-syllable couplets, generally rhyming. The form comes from Afghanistan, where women often use it in verses that range from the sly and humorous to […]
there is no tomorrow (18/30)
Prompt: And now for our (as always, optional) prompt, which takes us from 2015 back to the 1700s. After all, it’s the eighteenth of April, which means that today is […]
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. […]