Hi, all. I hope you’re well. I’m in the last week of the semester, and my kids are back in school five (half) days a week. The wild thing about a daily (or close to it) writing practive is how it can make each day of a whole month stretch out. Whatever your actual poem count is (I will not be sharing mine! it is far lower than it’s been in previous go-rounds of poems a day but that is fine!) I hope you’ve enjoyed getting your brain into a poetry space.
Today’s prompt is meant to be a bit playful. We’ll use the OneLook Dictionary Search to generate words you can use in a list poem.
Prompt #29: Making a List
Look through your poetry deck, your notebooks, your work from this month. What ideas, images, themes keep coming up? Pick one or two - perhaps things that surprise you, or that you hadn’t realized were quite so common.
Use the OneLook Dictionary Search to generate a bunch of words connected to that idea/image/topic. And play around with the different kinds of searches - you can get words that are related in terms of meaning, but also in terms of sound. Do at least four different searches and collect whatever words speak to you. Aim for at least ten that are outside your usual wheelhouse.
Use those new words to write a list poem. If you like, you could do it in the form of “ten ways of looking at a __.”
Sharing your work helps sustain momentum. I’ll leave the comments open, so you can share a poem title, a snippet of a line, or something else about your writing life. I’m also on twitter (@nancy_reddy) and instagram (@nancy.o.reddy), if you want to check in there.