Hathi Room

Today’s prompt was to take a book you love, find a line, write a poem based on it then change the title. I chose The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Not to give it away or anything, but my original line was “There is a way to be good again”. Wrote a short ghazal – Read more

Today’s prompt was to find a poem and write one that maintains the shape of the original where every line starts with the first letter of the corresponding line in the original poem. I decided to use the feature on Poems.com, but the April 5th feature was structured like prose so went back a day Read more

Today’s prompt was to write a poem inspired by the @SpaceLiminalBot. I chose the following photo: Anyway, spent most of the day skiing then had to work for a few hours at night so was a bit short on time today and went with a Haiku. Virtual we toilBut why, a wise one may probe?With what, Read more

Off prompt today – spent most of the day at the Tulip festival with my sister & her boyfriend so penned a Tanka about flowers. We ambled about through the garden in half bloompetals drawn for rays where bees sung in unisonwith light hearts and full spirits Read more

Day 2’s prompt was to write something inspired by Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. I didn’t really shoot for the rhyme scheme or iambic pentamer though, just sort of generally similar. Also I had a 4th stanza with the “made all the difference” part, but didn’t like it so that’s gone. Enjoy! The autumn Read more

Day 1 of Poetry month! Today’s prompt was to write something inspired by this animated version of “Seductive Fantasy” by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Decided to run with free verse for the first day… so without further ado: vinegared rice and seaweedsushi or sashimi under the MasBlue neon huetrembling chopsticks twirling about the fiddler fiddling Read more