Poetry Month 2023 by Red Room Poetry #30in30
Red Room Poetry are the organisers of Poetry Month and in August 2023, they provided 30 writing prompts for three line poems for 30 days.
I joined the challenge and here are my contributions in bold text.
The writing prompts for each poem are in italic text.
If you click on the date link, you will see it published on Facebook and the engagement it received and some of the other entries (it was also run on Twitter and Instagram).
I started making contributions on 1 August 2023 and you can see them below.
Here’s a video introduction to the series!
Write into a film that you can see in your mind’s eye. Write out of it. ~ Anwen Crawford
PAN IN To woman sitting on bench looking out to sea on the top of a cliff overlooking the bay
Ever searching for life’s meaning
To the depths of sea and the height of sky
A tear falls silently, there are no reasons why
With a person you love, write an ode to something you both love together, exploring it as a metaphor for the ways and reasons you … love… each other. ~ Rebecca Shaw & Freya Daly Sadgrove
Thy self a love unknown
A construct I only imagine
Seeking deliverance
For todays prompt, Sean asks you to write a poem as a real estate ad – thinking about sovereignty, ownership and Country. ~ Sean Choolburra
Almighty sovereign
Over me thus reign
Land a plenty, rise again
Meditate on your favourite plant. Research its botanical and cultural histories, its mythologies, its significance. Anthropomorphise it, ethically. What might it (not) need/(not) want to say, and in what form? ~ Stuart Barnes
Portulaca by the sea
Portulaca please feed me
Portulaca truly be
‘Ask not for whom the boulders roll…’ poetically respond to this. ~ Bob Brown
Ask not for whom the boulders roll
Out to silence the angry troll
For they are the keeper
Of what keeps our life sweeter
We all must pay attention to what Country is showing us. Write a poem in response. ~ Barrina South
In silence it cries
In joy it hopes
This land of ours, it barely copes
Write in the style of a phone scammer to a friend or relative in a way that would convince them that the poem or message is definitely from you. ~ Jennifer Wong
After 20 years on LinkedIn, I am in the sin bin
Please click the link
To get me started again!
Recall a fond nickname that friends or family have given you. Use this to jump into a poem. ~ L-Fresh the Lion
If you knew Suzie
Like I know Suzie
You’d think I’m crazy too!
Read through your texts, messages, or emails from an old friend. (Be brave; go back a few years.)
Write a poem based on a message or phrase that touches you. If the phrase doesn’t end up in your poem, use it as the poem’s title. ~ Shastra Deo
Why not be extravagant
In thought, word and deed
Limitless possibility
Think about a moment where you have held your tongue then write a poem about the words you wished you’d said. ~ Marieke Hardy & Emilie Zoey Baker
To survive, I was silenced
I couldn’t speak
And yet you judge me as if I could
Write an ode to your friends. Make it fun and delicious: include their names, the joys, the firsts, the quirks, the heartbreaks. ~ Sara M. Saleh
Friends of old
Friends anew
Friends for life
Sparkled through
Suzanne and Grace
Rosa and Colin
Paul and Cathie
Anything but common
Jenner and Michael
Nickie and Lee
Sincerely open
Rescuing me
Joyful sorrow
Fun at the fair
Secret vulnerability
Show they care
Sometimes confronting
Triggering too
But faithfully patient
Through and through
Constant companions
When life frowns
Encouraging champions
Of secret sounds
Friends may be travellers
For part of our journey
But my friends are my witness
And my greatest discovery
Write a 30 word or 3 line poem inspired by fabric. ~ Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss
A cover
A concealer
A revealer
Sit and write in the space of stillness, where meaning cannot be translated. The peaceful void where words are not enough, yet words are all we have to make sense of the chaos we have created. ~ Teela Reid
Words of thought
Beauty of meaning
Chaos abated
3 August 2023
Which poet are you most intrigued by? Comb through their poems for a question. Sit with it. Absorb its energies and angles. Now, answer that question with your own poem. ~ Andy Jackson
I have admired John O’Donohue, an Irish Poet for many years… https://johnodonohue.com/works
Where within is my root voice
Beyond the clanging of life
In quiet solace
What trauma clings in your life, and needs to be released? Write a poem to what you would put the match to.
~ Tara Moss & Berndt Sellheim
Felt not spoken
Trust broken
Endless onion
Dorothy Porter’s poems ’Raving’ and ‘Reading between My Lines’ are love poems, but not the dewy-eyed, happy-ever-after sort. Love and risk: it’s a common coupling. Write a poem about it. ~ Andrea Goldsmith (Dorothy Porter)
Love of me or love of you
How do I choose?
What if I lose?
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