Welcome to the thirtieth day of our 30/30!

After you respond to this prompt, I have a strict assignment for you: put on some insanely good music and have yourself a dance party. You did it! You are a poetry superhero!

Your prompt today is:

Within my hands
Alternatively: Without / Beneath / Above / Use a preposition that challenges
your hands’ usual behaviors or usage

Thanks for going the distance with us. It’s been a genuine delight. Whatever you do, keep writing!

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 twenty-ninth day of our 30/30!

I can hardly believe it’s almost over. I don’t want to say goodbye.

Your prompt today is:

Maybe god tastes of
Alternatively: maybe [deity of your choice] [sense] [prep]…

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
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• 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 twenty-eighth day of our 30/30!

It’s our third-to-last prompt of the 2016 National Poetry Month. Admit it, you’ll miss this, won’t you. Maybe just a little?

Your prompt today is:

My third wish would be

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• 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 twenty-seventh day of our 30/30!

Hand cramping up? Heels blistered? Pen out of ink? What a journey we’ve undertaken. We’re nearly there, dear ones. You’ve totally got this.

Your prompt today is:

Write a poem from the point of view of your feet.

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• 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 day twenty-six of our 30/30!

Do you ever feel like you’re living in some kind of alternate poetry-filled universe? No, me either. Never. Not even remotely delirious with poetry.

Your prompt today is:

Next spring I refuse to

Guidelines, if you want them:

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• 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

Twenty-five. Do you know how awesome you are? Twenty-five days, and you keep coming back to take on these prompts. Your dedication is phenomenal.

Your prompt today is:

This is what I build:

Guidelines, if you want them:

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• 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

Here we go, it’s the twenty-fourth day of our 30/30!

You know what you’ve got? Grit. Also, moxy. You’re the real deal.

Your prompt today is:

The wind’s always talking about

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
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• 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 twenty-third day of our 30/30!

We’re on the home stretch, y’all. High fives all around.

Your prompt today is:

I always expected to make this journey:
Alternatively: I never expected to make this journey

Guidelines, if you want them:

• Posting your response is not required
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• 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 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:

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• 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