Here's the prompt for Day 20 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 20: Write a poem on any topic using no more than ten words. Form: any Line requirements: any 1. When two become one are they double or half? 2. A milkmaid's thoughts should be kept in her dairy #NaPM #NaPM2018 #PoemADay

Here's the prompt for Day 19 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 19: Write a poem using the following ten words: diabolic, tense, chicken, surge, lust, premature, jump, bridge, ring, regard. You can make words singular or plural and change tenses. Form: any Line requirements: 8 lines or more The Contract Dear Applicant, In order to properly categorise your request, we ask that you clarify the following: The Object -- While it is understandabl

Here's the prompt for Day 18 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 18: Write a poem based around a central metaphor. Form: any Line requirements: 8 lines or more I will come back to this one later #NaPM #NaPM2018 #PoemADay

Here's the prompt for Day 17 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 17: Write a poem inspired by things we discard. Form: any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Labels Sometimes -- when I think of it -- I check labels to make sure of biodegradability. I don't want to burden the earth more than I must, but I don't always remember. I confess, it is this carelessness that led to investing in a product entirely unsuitable for consumption. I believed in redem

Here's the prompt for Day 16 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 16: Write a poem inspired by the individual, the crowd, or the mob. Form: any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Festival It is not you who looks at the backs of strangers that block the light from the floods and cast grotesque shadows as they writhe across you your ears are not the ones that resonate with the words from their mouths and yours, so different from the other voice

Here's the prompt for Day 14 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 14: Write a poem inspired by a horror film, slasher movie, or something that scares you. Form: any Line requirements: 8 lines or more The Blob What is there to fear from pink, gelatinous goo? Today's CGI would make it laughable, some kind of Nickelodeon travail that would fail to raise more than a titter. But, when you're small and have sneaked down the hall to hide beneath the

Here's the prompt for Day 13 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 13: Write a poem inspired by a secret. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Fried Eleven herbs and spices, finger lickin', an advertiser's dream in crumbs and grease -- ain't nothing beats the Colonel's famous chicken When we were kids our little hearts would quicken just thinking of the flavour of a piece: eleven herbs and spices, finger lickin' For road trips, birthd

Here's the prompt for Day 12 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 12: Write a poem about how you survived. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more the better part of valour we are cells from skin and down to the dark places that only blood can touch and when other skins burn against our own the deep down walls keep us safe not whole, but safe, alive, and quiet #NaPM #NaPM2018 #PoemADay

Here's the prompt for Day 11 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 11: Write a poem inspired by edges (of any kind). Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Birmingham It shattered and the shards flew wide to lodge in cloth, in wood, in flesh where once we laughed by fireside it shattered and the shards flew wide and God would call it justified to cleanse the world and start afresh it shattered and the shards flew wide to lodge in cloth,

Here's the prompt for Day 10 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 10: Write a poem inspired by something illegal. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Lost When Disney stole our childhood and turned it into a fantasy of rescue and reliance, all costumed in petticoats and dancing to the key of gee whiz, we did not march. We sang along and cheered the prince whose prize was won at the point of a sword, with the touch of the lips. We la