Prompt. Poems

Water, 30 random word prompt

The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my memory rumbles through my mind, rusty with age, hauling fragments I thought were extinguished long ago. I paste the pieces
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Categories: prompt., 10th grade, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFind Your Niche :Wisdom prompt

Wisdom is not enough to calm your fears
Love can be tough and won’t dry your tears

If you see rain look forward to sun
Despite the pain look forward to fun

Know time is ticking like a clock
There’s no notice when it will stop

Be a good steward to others and self
Living in the moment as a great help

Find
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Categories: prompt., poetry,
Form: Couplet


Premium MemberSand Promises -POTW

Flip flops and straw hat adorn him, beach wear suits him nicely
Kind is he to her as he scoops into a bucket measuring precisely

Casted are his piteous passions in sunstruck warm sands
Gently shaping and capturing her likeness, she is in skilled hands

Stooping over chin to knee he bares bronze shoulders glimmering  
Her features delicate,
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Categories: prompt., beach, love,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberPICTURE PROMPT 2 encaustic art


HOT WAX ABSTRACT

 encaustic-
ironing trick
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Categories: prompt., art,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberPICTURE PROMPT






Look see I HATE GEOMETRY
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Categories: prompt., math, word play,
Form: Epigram


Premium MemberHonkers pic prompt sb Margarita Lillico




Three bros., Wideye, Snaggletooth, and Zonkers
When in town went a little bit bonkers
With the girls that walked by
What was level with their eye
Was ogled, whistled at, or they'd honk-hers!
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Categories: prompt., cute, funny,
Form: Limerick

Barks of wisdom - Picture prompt

The alpha canine stood under the tree
Such doggy wisdom does not come for free
“If you bury your bone
please remember the zone
Now form an orderly queue while I pee”
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Categories: prompt., dog, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberWhere Four Lines Could Be - Picture Prompt Contest

     Next to a tree where four lines could be
     Canines haven’t even thought of three
        You think they'll form two
        That they'd never do
     ‘One and dumb’ ~
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Categories: prompt., dog, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberDogs Picture Prompt

Come on guys I really need to go.
My inside are about to blow,
This line is way too long,
No time to sing a song.
I am filled with messy cargo.
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Categories: prompt., giggle, song, time, uplifting,
Form: Limerick

Giraffe Etiquette - Picture Prompt

Posh giraffes like to take a lengthy sip
Outstanding manners we will not let slip
We like afternoon tea
From a cup - hear our plea
Give us a trough if you want a good tip

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Categories: prompt., animal, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberPicture Prompt - Two for tea

They booked the restaurant two for tea.
The giraffes turned up promptly at three.
              They were way too tall you know. 
              The roof was too low and so,
They used
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Categories: prompt., drink,
Form: Limerick

I Spell a Cat - Picture Prompt

The life of a magicians cat is dread
Especially when old spells are misread
He magicked a canary
But alas, O'contrary
I ended up in the darn cage instead
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Categories: prompt., humor, magic,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberCat Cage - Picture Prompt

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Well I thought I saw a puddy tat 
How did I ever imagine that?        
    Just look at our faces. 
    It seems we swapped places. 
He is where he belongs that bad cat.
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Categories: prompt., bird, cat,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberPrompt Troller

Through writing prompts I quietly scroll,
five with the same topic takes a toll;
How many ways can you say 
the same thought in a new way?
I suppose I will just sit and troll.
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Categories: prompt., humor, inspiration, poetry, words,
Form: Limerick

A Prompt With Friday In Mind

"It can do wonders, everywhere", 
He said
"Writing is just playing God, you know!
It can switch places between protagonist and antagonist
And make them equally, equally vulnerable in the face of fate
It can twist the plot, where anything and everything is possible
So far you sustain in the black. 
Black also tells the truth." 
He paused.

"How can you
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Categories: prompt., how i feel,
Form: Free verse

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