Topic 28: a poem inspired by memory loss. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Cantata A devil was dancing to elegant tunes, a moonlight sonata for one, when over the strains of the soft violin a beat bittersweet was begun. The flames sighed and sickened, the dance lost its way, the glow faded out of the skies, the beat bittersweet played its siren song to the devil with tears in its eyes. The faded gr

Topic 26: Write a poem from the point of view of an anti-hero, an adversary, a bad guy, etc. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at Pig Pen Poetry Before the fall I think I could have loved her as my father loved my mother though my mother loved another so it's said And my mother, my creator knew that Ned could implicate her so the Hand, now branded traitor lost his head Now I see sweet Sansa crying and it's rather gratifying ho

Topic 25: Write a poem inspired by a murder Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at Pig Pen Poetry Home The alley is silent. Rain glistens on concrete and tar, stretching shadows beneath a single light. She served drinks in the club until midnight. Still in her stockings and heels, she walks home along familiar streets, unconcerned. This is her city. She turns into the alley, a shadow moves, she screams. This only happens on the scr

Topic 24: Write a poem inspired by a movie Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com No Redemption Behind the woman is a wall upon which she, two-dimensional, must abide in silence. Men see flesh and are moved to covet, but will not challenge he who already possesses her. But he is not those men. He uses her for misdirection, discards her when she has served her time, moves on to the next. Gradually, the wall and

Topic 23: Write a poem inspired by something terrible happening Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Saturday's Soldiers Raiders, invaders, you ran your sheep and cattle across our sacred land, built sheds upon our bora grounds and kept us from our past. Wiradjuri we, born free to die as you please. You spread your disease, you rape and you maim, you plunder and poison and pass us the blame. Windradyne r

Topic 22: Write a poem about losing something or about something you have lost Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Foundations The day Isaac Asimov died I knew that my childhood had passed the friends in the books I'd amassed would nevermore speak. Horrified, I went to the school I'd just left the day Isaac Asimov died straight into the staffroom; bereft my teacher and I sat and cried No, physics does not t

Topic 21: Write a poem about chickens - alive chickens, dead chickens, crossing the road, laying, chicken fights, etc. Write a poem inspired by chickens. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Eggs On Sundays we have eggs as our contempt for hens demands we eat the children they’re denied singing all about the sunny side the funny side is, deep within her box the hen just goes on pecking looking out across t

Topic 20: Write a poem inspired by watching a neighbors yard through the fence or jumping into their pool or a poem inspired by voyeurism. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Weeds There was no house next to ours, just a vacant lot with a shed on it and two horses. The men who looked after the horses were Gordon and Dave. The horses never told us their names, so we gave them different ones each week, depen

Topic 19: Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his jail time turning some of Aesop's fables "which he knew" into verses. Most poets through the ages have tried their hands at a fable or 2 and who are we - better than most poets? - better than Socrates?? Write a poem/fable, a poem inspired by a fable or a versification of a fable. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Lore Gather round children, I'll tell you

Topic 18: A time -honored tradition amongst poets is the response poem wherein a poet responds to a favourite poem or one that inspires her. Write response poem to a poem that you like or one that inspires you. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com The Last Time They pulled the ivy from the walls, my love, and yesterday dropped from the cracks, unboarding the windows, forming the key again in my hand. Your eyes,