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Hello Poetteers, Today's poetry challenge is the letter Q. You can find all the challenges in the April Poetry Bundle . Word Prompt Quit Questions What are you currently trying to do? What did you give up on? Why did you give up on it? Was it a good or bad choice to give it up? Poetry Form Quatern: This poem has 16 lines broken up into 4 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas). Each line is comprised of eight syllables. The first line is the refrain. In the second stanza, the refrain appears in the second line; in the third stanza, the third line; in the fourth stanza, the fourth (and final) line. There are no rules for rhyming or iambics. ( source ). Stay inspired, Fida  Find all the challenges in the April Poetry Bundle . 

Hello Poetteers, Today's poetry challenge is the letter L. You can find all the challenges in the April Poetry Bundle . Word Prompt Love and Lost Questions What was love to you when you were a child? What is love to you today? Did you lose something recently, how and why? Poetry Form A limerick is a poetry form in five lines with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, which is sometimes meant to be humorous. Share the poems on Instagram using #dailypoetrygram and tagging me @poetfida. These questions are here to guide you in writing your poem. You don’t have to answer all the questions or use all your responses in the poem. Pick your favorite responses to be in the poem and rearrange them until you’re satisfied. These word prompts are up to your creativity and interpretation. Stay inspired, Fida  Find all the challenges in the  April Poetry Bundle . 

Hello Poetteers, Today's poetry challenge is the letter G. You can find the whole challenge in the April Poetry Bundle . Word Prompt Give Questions How do you give yourself to the world?  How are you given your friends? What do your friends give you? How do you show gratitude?  Poetry Form Gogyohka was a form developed by Enta Kusakabe in Japan and translates literally to “five-line poem.” An off-shoot of the tanka form, the gogyohka has very simple rules: The poem is comprised of five lines with one phrase per line. ( source ). Share the poems on Instagram using #dailypoetrygram and tagging me @poetfida. These questions are here to guide you in writing your poem. You don’t have to answer all the questions or use all your responses in the poem. Pick your favorite responses to be in the poem and rearrange them until you’re satisfied. These word prompts are up to your creativity and interpretation. Example I show my heart to the world show...

Hello Poetteers, Welcome to the first day of the A to Z Poetry challenge. I won't be blogging every day. You can find all the challenges in the April Poetry Bundle . Today's challenge is the letter A. Word Prompt Ablaze Questions What sparked a fire in you? How are you fierce? What strong emotions are you feeling? What bright colors describe those emotions? Poetry Form Acrostic Share the poems on Instagram using #dailypoetrygram and tagging me @poetfida. This is all optional. These questions are here to guide you in writing your poem. You don’t have to answer all the questions or use all your responses in the poem. Pick your favorite responses to be in the poem and rearrange them until you’re satisfied. These word prompts are up to your creativity and interpretation. Example Burning Fiercely  I'm always asked about my faith and culture of why I fast and wear the headscarf blue with frustration and red with anger  instead of letting...

Hello Poetteers, As you know the A to Z blog challenge is coming up. April is also national poetry month. Of course, I found a way to combine the two events. Three years ago I wrote original poetry. This year I will be writing poetry prompts. Along with this, I'll be participating in the 100-day project. My project will be sketching my poetry. Follow along in #100daysofsketchedpoems. List of word prompts. For in-depth prompts, check out the April Poetry Bundle .  I won't be blogging every day like the challenge calls for. I will be keeping to my regular schedule of blogging once a week. That won't take away from the content or value of the challenge. You will be able to find all the poetry prompts in the April Poetry Bundle . Talking about the April prompts, this time last year I started #dailypoetrygram . I'm changing it up. I asked you if you wanted daily or weekly prompts and the chosen one was weekly prompts. Stay tuned next month for the change. T...

Hello Poetteers, After a #PoetteerChat about food and poetry, I had the pleasure to collaborate on a poem with Charlotte Hamrick . The Well Worked Globe Bread is a part of every meal and Monday mornings were for bread-making. My five-year-old self would sit at the big, worn kitchen table and watch Grandma's hands as they expertly kneaded and rolled the dough, grabbing the edge, folding it to the center, then pushing it down with the heels of her palms, gradually turning the pale round disc until all edges met in the middle, over and over, her fingers flexing, arms relentlessly churning like waves on a shore. I'd watch as she chatted and sometimes sang, a merry-go-round of domesticity, a goddess of the kitchen, until time to rest the well-worked globe in a bowl in the corner. Later, the whole house was filled with the smell of freshly baked bread we sat around the dining room table I tore off a piece of pita to dip in hummus as we waited for ...

Hello Poetteers, This blog is for me but it is also for you. Usually, I am the one to give you word and poetry prompts. Sometimes the prompts aren’t up your alley or you want your own set of words instead of a general set of word prompts. I am open to receiving suggestions. You always create your own set of word prompts. There are several ways to get started and places to pull words from. Open a thesaurus or dictionary and look for works that stand out. Narrow in on an event and pick words that come from it. Example: After the inauguration and women’s march all these words popped up in my mind. That’s how I came up with the March poetry prompts .  Pick a theme and the words that go with it.  Most poetry prompts last for a month. Sometimes that can be too much. You could do one that goes one prompt per week or 7 prompts in one week and gauges if that week is one of writing or not. Another option is to simply cut it in half and have 15 prompts for the whole month. ...