Category Archives: Challenges and Writing Prompts

crickets

crickets

in the shadows hid
a cricket crooning loudly
driving me insane

~kat

Na/GloPoWriMo2022 -Day 12 Prompt: write a poem about a very small thing.


a big deal

a big deal

you should know that
it’s a really big deal, huge,
as a matter of fact, so pay
no mind to the small thinkers and
the shrinking violets who tell
you it’s not all that, and more,
who try to dissuade you from
aspiring to that really big thing
because it is a big thing and
you know it, even if nobody else
knows what it is, you know, and
that’s all that matters…so I’m
here to tell you, you’ve got this,
I’m proud of you, go for it,
don’t look back, but if you do,
you will see me right here cheering
you on, because it’s important to
you, a really big deal, huge
yep, just because of that

~kat

Na/GloPoWriMo2022 Day 11 Prompt: write a poem about a very large thing. 

Na/GloPoWriMo2022 – Weekend Wrap-up

Today you get a three-fer…Friday, Saturday and Sunday’s prompt responses. Not that i wasn’t writing each day but true to form, i wanted to give each offering its creative due. Happy Sunday!

Na/GloPoWriMo Day 8 prompt: name your alter-ego, and then describe him/her in detail. Then write in your alter-ego’s voice.
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pure transparency
superpower revealed
truth is my weapon

~kat

Glo/NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 9 Prompt: write in a specific form – the nonet! A nonet has nine lines. The first line has nine syllables, the second has eight, and so on until you get to the last line, which has just one syllable.
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fishbowl in flux

when the snails passed away this week
the tetras dined on escargots
catfish came out of hiding
to clean the empty shell
nothing is wasted
life cycles on,
season’s change,
nature’s
way

~kat

Na/GloPoWriMo 2022 Day 10 Prompt: write a love poem. 
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

thoughts of her

even now
after all these years
just the thought of her
ignites love’s embers,
the smoldering subtle tinge
of longing, yesteryear flashing in
excruciating, technicolored detail
sunlight glistening through the fine
hair on her bare skin, scent of
warm musk, soft bursts of breath,
melded, crescendoing to a sigh
remembering…remembering
that once upon a moment past
touches me so deeply
after all these years
even now

~kat

“ignorance is bliss”


“ignorance is bliss”

you should be happy
because ignorance is bliss
instead, you’re just mean

~kat


Glo/NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 7 Prompt: write a poem that argues against, or somehow questions, a proverb or saying.

stop and smell the roses

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“stop and smell the roses”

stop trying to please
and take some time for you to
smell spring’s sweetness in
the moments after the rain
roses misted, dressed in red

~kat

NaPoWriMo2022 -Day 6 Prompt: write a variation of an acrostic poem. But rather than spelling out a word with the first letters of each line, I’d like you to write a poem that reproduces a phrase with the first words of each line.

To challenge myself even more, this poem was created using Original Magnetic Poetry online in the format of a Tanka 😊