Hathi Room

Still trailing by a day, oof. Yesterday’s prompt was to use a word from the Classical Dictionary and a word from the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, then create a poem out of it. The words I used were Eleus defined as a “city of Thrace – A river of Media – A king of Read more

Late post, but yesterday’s prompt was to write a letter to yourself or a fictional character and write the response letter. I wrote a pair of limericks (well, the rhyme scheme at least). Dearest 2051 Rushil, You better still be skiingAnd hopefully still be peeingVacations galoreYour kids shouldn’t be boresAnd your wife, she better not Read more

Going off prompt today – also, I don’t have a junk drawer. A little almost summer haiku: With the sea lionswatching, the waves crashing, we stroll on the boardwalk Read more

I’m a day late on this one, but found a nifty WordPress feature that lets me pretend this was published yesterday. The prompt was to write a poem in the form of a “to-do” list, ideally from an unusual character. Here’s Elon Musk’s to do list (no harm intended, ofc) – My extremely important task Read more

Today’s prompt was to write a poem in the form of a monologue of a dead person. I struggled to come up with someone so thinking about the type of message a generic boomer may want to send to the doomers today. Free verse for this one, not the greatest but I can’t stay awake: Read more

Today’s prompt was to write a shadorama or Fib (I’d never heard of either style). Decided to go with the shadorama and been burning the midnight oil quite a bit last couple weeks for work, so this one’s on some of our favorite staying awake tools. When the hourarm strikes midnight andpixels turninto blurTchkk! The Read more