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October 22, 2021

Paint Chip Octave No. 4

I’m going to sound like a broken record, but as you can see I’m late again with this Friday’s prompt. But we’re still having another octave prompt in the continuing poem of five octaves. For the definition of octave and the full prompt, see this post from...

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July 23, 2021

Paint Chip Villanelle Poetry Prompt

As I mentioned last week, we’ll be staying in the V section of the poetry dictionary this week with one of my favorite poetry forms: the villanelle. It is a very long entry in the dictionary so I’m only sharing part of it, just enough...

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June 25, 2021

Tanka with Paint Chips

It’s Friday again (well, actually Thursday when I’m writing this, but for you readers it’s Friday). We are into the T section of the poetry dictionary and the entry I’ve selected is the tanka. It was hard to choose because I also love the terza...

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June 18, 2021

Sixains and Paint Chips

It’s Friday again. This week has dragged and flown by at the same time. I don’t quite understand it, but that’s how it feels. Anyway, we are into the S section of the poetry dictionary and there were a lot of good choices. I was...

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February 19, 2021

Haibun Paint Chip Poetry Prompt

I’ve been crazy busy this week, on top of having my power and internet out for two days because of an ice storm here in Oregon. I was tempted to go with haiku from the H section of the poetry dictionary. But then I pulled...

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February 12, 2021

A Ghazal and Paint Chip Prompt

It’s Valentine’s Day weekend coming up and so the second (of only three) entry in the G section of the poetry dictionary seems appropriate. It’s the ghazal. I wrote my first ghazal in 2013, in response to a lesson and prompt at dVerse Poets Pub....

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January 8, 2021

Ballade Paint Chip Poetry Prompt

It’s week two of 2021. It’s already been a crazy year and it’s only the 8th. Perhaps a little poetry will help us cope. And I’ve decided to make us all think a bit for this one. The Challenge I’ve moved on to the B...

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July 21, 2020

Fun with Haiku and Senryu

I recently came across a delightful website called Poetry Pea run by a poet named Patricia. They publish a print journal of submitted haiku and senryu, and also have a monthly podcast in which Patricia (who has a delightful voice, I might add) reads some...

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February 14, 2020

Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #7 for My Valentine

It’s week 7 of the Paint Chip Poetry Prompt and it’s Valentine’s Day. I’m tickled that there are some Valentine’s appropriate words in the mix, and they do say home is where the heart is. So be a dear and play along. It would make...

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