Here's the prompt for Day 9 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 9: Write a poem inspired by a mystery. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more The Devil's Footprints And from the Exe it rose; the river boiled and yet the snows remained. The frozen white rejected it and only hooves could mark the purity. The passage of the Beast ranged wide across the counties in the still and witching hours when none of God's will roam. What purpose but

Here's the prompt for Day 8 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 8: Write a poem inspired by a set of instructions. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Electricity Do not immerse in water, so it said and I, a cynic, naturally read this warning with a laugh and one raised brow -- a quirk I'd practised often -- anyhow I plugged it in. The little light glowed red like Mother's eyes before she'd deftly shred our little sinner hides for fi

Here's the prompt for Day 7 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Write a poem inspired by a supernatural, altered consciousness, or ecstatic experience. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more (I'll return to this one... inspiration deserted me today...) #NaPM #NaPM2018 #PoemADay

Here's the prompt for Day 6 of National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 6: Write a poem inspired by the perspective of anthropologists from one thousand years in the future trying to make sense of something we routinely do today. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more What Lingers Consider the iconography of the butterfly: this mythological creature captured the imagination of the ancients, particularly women, for whom it clearly had an associati

Here's the prompt for Day 5 of the National Poetry Month poem-a-day challenge on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 5: Write a poem inspired by a myth retold to exist in the modern day. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Actaeon Guild When cast beneath the eyes of a man, a woman's virtue falls from her. The greater the man, the harder her fall; waist high is the new sky. Every nymph is naked in his regard. They frolic and laugh before the gaze of the ador

Day 4's prompt for National Poetry Month at Pig Pen Poetry Workshop Topic 4: Write a love poem without expressing any outpouring of emotion. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Tea Every morning he sits at the table with a pot of tea, waiting. In his cup is milk and sugar. Her cup is empty again. He lifts the pot and pours his tea. Milk swirls and the sugar stays as sludge in the bottom of his cup. His spoon lies on the saucer, untouched. Without he

Day 3's prompt for National Poetry Month on Pig Pen Poetry Workshop. Topic 3: Write a poem inspired by a misunderstood monster. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more The Countess There is much talk about blood and beauty but I - woman, mother, lover - am not swayed by such shallow desires I was beautiful when I saw my father sew a thief into the belly of a dying horse, then return to table for a feast I was beautiful when my lover was castrated and f

Here's today's prompt for National Poetry Month at Pig Pen Poetry Workshop Topic 2: Write a poem inspired by speculative future (i.e., utopia, dystopia, invention, upheaval, etc.). Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Dig We are within ourselves. Without Dream, we have no power to purchase voice. We are decay. In Somnium we break ground for gathering. It yields beneath the crust of our ancestors, sharded into shovelry, the cyclical enhancement of the h

It's National Poetry Month (US) again, and time to write a poem a day for the entire 30 days of April. As is traditional, Pig Pen Poetry Workshop is running a free set of forum prompts, with no critique requirements, for all to join in. This year's prompts are brought to you by the exceptional poet and moderator extraordinaire, Todd Wylie. To take the challenge, you only need to sign up to the workshop. You will not receive any spam emails and there are no ongoing requireme