
NaPM 2018 Day 20
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

NaPM 2018 Day 19
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

NaPM 2018 Day 18
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

NaPM 2018 Day 17
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

NaPM 2018 Day 16
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

NaPM 2018 Day 14
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

NaPM 2018 Day 13
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

NaPM 2018 Day 12
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

NaPM 2018 Day 11
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,

NaPM 2018 Day 10
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