Welcome to the twenty-second day of our 30/30!

Your prompt today is:

What would you ask
your mirror to show you?

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here

It’s the twenty-first day of our 30/30!

Less than ten prompts to go! You are an inspiration to us all.

Your prompt today is:

Describe the tree you climbed (or never climbed,
but dreamed of) as a child.

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here

Welcome to the twentieth day of our 30/30!

Your prompt today is:

When the teakettle sings

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here

Welcome to the nineteenth day of our 30/30!

I’m pretty sure that just showing up today counts as winning National Poetry Month. I think that’s a reasonable assumption, don’t you? You devoted writer, you.

Your prompt today is:

The night’s quietest sound

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here

It’s the eighteenth day of our 30/30!

Have you found yourself revising any of your responses yet, from earlier in the month? Just curious. Everyone’s process is different.

Your prompt today is:

Describe yourself as a fireplace: what you’d be made of,
what you’d look like, the fuel you’d burn,
who would gather at your hearth.

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here

Welcome to the seventeenth day of our 30/30!

Be proud. Be very, very proud.

Your prompt today is:

At sunrise I smell
Alternatively: at sunset I [sense]

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here

You’ve made it to the sixteenth day of our 30/30!

Your prompt today is:

In winter I dream of

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here

It’s the fifteenth day of our 30/30!

We’re halfway there, friends. How are you feeling? Have you been able to find time every day? Do you think a few of your responses will turn into poems?

Your prompt today is:

My mother’s hands
Alternatively: my mother’s eyes

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here

We’ve made it to the fourteenth day of our 30/30!

Your prompt today is:

If this window could talk

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here

Welcome to the thirteenth day of our 30/30!

You know what? You are amazing. Keep going.

Your prompt today is:

Write an aubade to yourself.

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
• Feel free to post your response   🙂
• This is not meant to be the perfect first draft – respond without hesitation for 5-7 minutes, then keep going if you want to
• While our prompts are geared towards poetry, we welcome all kinds of artists
• Tips & encouragement are here