Place in poems – who needs a GPS device when we’re grounded in detail?
Lately as I’ve been driving from one place to another I’ve started jotting down interesting town names and street signs: Tulip Lane, Sleepy Hollow Road, Famous Raymond’s Hot Boiled Peanuts, The Best Little Hair House in Georgia (a hair salon!) and the [...]

What happens when you pour balsamic vinegar over extra-virgin olive oil? The oil rests on top of the vinegar in the cruet, but if you shake the contents, you create a delicious salad dressing.
Prompt
For your poem this week, try combining two elements that don’t seem to go together at first glance. Here’s the process:
• Think [...]

I suppose I should start by apologizing for the cliché, but your prompt this week is to repeat yourself poetically. Repetition is one of the most important concepts in poetry. Songwriters understand this with their catchy choruses and repetition is very common in verse forms. Villanelles, sestinas, rondeaux and pantoum are all built on repetition. [...]

At least half of those who responded to the current “read write poll” believe that “growing poetically” is the hardest part of being a poet. I am thrilled about that!
I am not happy that you’re struggling to grow poetically, but I am happy that you want it. It tells me that this community sees [...]

Here we are with Get Your Poem On #14.
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We hope you took the time to write something based on the “ode to the [...]

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.
Be sure to check back through the week and see what others have written in response to ideas about clothing — or inspirations from other sources: Read [...]