Poetry Prompt – Another Fearless Year

October 29, 2021

Paint Chip Octave No. 5

We’ve made it to the end of the month (almost) and the last October octave prompt. To read the definition of octave and the full instructions for this prompt, read Paint Chip Octave No. 1. You can read my continuing saga about my teddy bear...

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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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October 15, 2021

Paint Chip Octave No. 3

Well, I’m late again this week. Thursday came filled with things to do and writing this prompt ended up not being one of them. We are in week three of five weeks of related prompts. The challenge for each week is to write the next...

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October 8, 2021

Paint Chip Octave No. 2

Last week we started a month-long quest to write five octaves that are connected as a single poem. My apologies for the late posting of this week’s edition. It’s been that kind of week. For the definition of octave and the full prompt, see this...

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October 1, 2021

Paint Chip Octave No. 1

It’s October 1 and I can’t believe how fast summer left us behind. Sigh. The only thing to do is look forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas, knowing spring can’t be far behind. Have I mentioned that summer is my favorite season? Anyway, I’m always a...

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September 24, 2021

Sestinas and Paint Chips Collide

Hello poets. At the beginning of this month I warned you that the fourth prompt for September would involve writing a sestina. As I began to write this prompt, I was tempted to change course because, well, sestinas are hard to write and I hadn’t...

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September 17, 2021

A Paint Chip Poem Is Like . . .

Can you guess from the title of this post what entry in the S section of the poetry dictionary I’ve selected for our challenge today? If I had pulled the paint chips first, I might have picked a different entry, but there’s no going back...

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September 10, 2021

Fragments and Paint Chips

Hello friends. We’re still in the S section of the poetry dictionary this week. I’ve settled on sentence fragment for this week’s prompt. We all know, I hope, what a sentence fragment is, but I’m sharing the definition from the dictionary nonetheless. Unfortunately I can’t...

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September 3, 2021

Slanting the Paint Chips

September is upon us. Apparently, according to meteorologists, it is now meteorological fall. I prefer astronomical fall, because that means three more weeks of summer, my very favorite season. Besides, my wedding anniversary is next Monday and I was married in the summer, not the...

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August 27, 2021

Paint Chip Short Verse Part 4

It’s already the fourth Friday in August! I can’t believe how quickly this month is flying by. I’m glad I decided to do this short verse prompts this month and have been delighted at some of the lovely poems you all have been inspired to...

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Another Fearless Year

Tag: Poetry Prompt

Paint Chip Octave No. 5

Paint Chip Octave No. 4

Paint Chip Octave No. 3

Paint Chip Octave No. 2

Paint Chip Octave No. 1

Sestinas and Paint Chips Collide

A Paint Chip Poem Is Like . . .

Fragments and Paint Chips

Slanting the Paint Chips

Paint Chip Short Verse Part 4

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Paint Chip Octave No. 5

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Paint Chip Octave No. 4

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Paint Chip Octave No. 3

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Paint Chip Octave No. 2

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Paint Chip Octave No. 1

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Sestinas and Paint Chips Collide

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A Paint Chip Poem Is Like . . .

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Fragments and Paint Chips

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Slanting the Paint Chips

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Paint Chip Short Verse Part 4

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