Welcome back, fear-fighters! Did you slay your dragons this week? Face your fears head-on with oomph? Even if all you did was crawl into bed and pull the covers over your head (and write a poem with a flashlight), we want to read about it!
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After receiving a rejection from an editor that said my poems didn’t have “oomph,” I have been thinking a lot lately about what gives a poem oomph. You know, the heart of a poem, its meat. The lines that let you know what the poet is really thinking or feeling, the ah-ha moment [...]

Hey. It’s Monday just after midnight, CST, and time to open the comments to your fresh poetry.
Did you catch some words, using this week’s prompt, or try something else altogether? Post and link and have yourself a little poetry-party.
Be sure to check back through the week and find links to other people’s poetic-stuff that they’ve [...]

As writers it is important for us to read widely, look closely and be open to inspiration in all its many forms.
One of my favorite sources of inspiration is the words of other poets. No matter how many times I think, “I have got to bring a notebook along with me to the bookstore,” [...]

From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open so you can leave a permalink to your blog post for this week’s contribution. (Carolee hopes in sympathy with her aversion to sun strokes, but leave a link to any poem or poem-like writing you’d like to share this week.)
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From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink to your blog post for your illuminating poems.
Be sure to check back through the week and see other people’s revised work, or any other idea that they’ve chosen to share for Read Write Poem!
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Here in upstate New York, summer officially started less than one week ago. Summer days stretch out before us, the sun shines for hours and the street lights come on later. Fireflies are back in business. The fireworks (the glittering, shining loud lights in the sky) started the day school got out and will no [...]

Dear Muse: How do I avoid listening to thee? Let me count the ways … reading blogs, reading books/magazines, eating, watching television, organizing something, socializing, cleaning the house, doodling, working, going for a walk, running errands, balancing checkbooks and doing intense exercise. It’s interesting to see our methods of procrastination in one list. Look [...]

Did you come up with similes, metaphors or anything else this week? We want to know.
From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink (one per comment, please!) to your blog post for this week’s contribution.
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Gulls like white handkerchiefs. How I wish I’d written that line. It is a gorgeous simile. Alas. It is not mine. It is a line from Isabel Allende’s new memoir, The Sum of Our Days.
This week, your prompt is fairly simple. Make comparisons. Notice the world around you. Turn your observations into similes (and [...]