by Bill Yarrow
Write a poem beginning with the word "bed" in which the word "horse" or "alpine" appears in the seventh line.
Write a poem in which fraternal twins each marry accountants.
Write a poem in which the last letter of the third word in every line spells out your home state.
Write a poem in which your father is a dog and you are his leash.
Write a poem containing seven six-syllable words found in your favorite cookbook.
Write a poem of 10,000 lines in which prime numbers figure illogically.
Write a poem whose first word is also its last word, whose second word is also its eleventh word, whose forty-fifth word is also its sixth, seventeenth, and thirty-ninth word, and whose one-hundredth word is a foreign word.
Write a poem in which Christian missionaries become dry cleaners.
Write a poem whose refrain is any three non-consecutive lines from Blake's "Milton."
Write a poem in which Cinderella is imprisoned for tax fraud.
Write a poem whose total syllables number 613.
Write a poem in which the narrator is the weather.
Write a poem in which the spirit of your dead cat tells you what to write your next poem about.
Write a poem that does not contain the color pink.
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This poem appeared in "The Miscreant."
Thanks, Amanda Harris.
This poem appears in "Against Prompts."
https://www.amazon.com/Against-Prompts-Bill-Yarrow/dp/1943170282
This poem shows you how to write a poem. Take chances. Invent. Don't worry. Believe in it until the very end. Give it all you've got.
I like the poem even if I think you misunderstand how prompts can work. Someday we'll can have a discussion but meanwhile good work. *
Ha. I remember getting some ridiculous ones...
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Love it. I even got some good ideas here ;)
Love it!
Now all I can think of is pink.*
Write a poem in which the sum total of its lines spells Irony. *
In exactly twenty words (not including the asterisk), write a comment that indicates that you dig this poem very much. *
Hi, everybody! Thanks for the great comments!
Nice :) *
Great sweep of imagery, Bill. As a reader I feel at home in the poem. I like it.
Write a poem in which Christian missionaries become dry cleaners.
Needs to happen. *
Enjoyed.
*, Bill. Such a smart poem. I like it a lot.
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Darryl, John, Amanda, Neil, Gary H, Tim, Mat, Ray, Loren, Sam, Nicholas, SDR, David + Gary P--thank you all for commenting and liking.