Poetry Challenge: Dictionary Delights
Poetry Challenge: Dictionary Delights Look through a good dictionary and pick 5 to 10 words based purely on the...
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National Poetry Month Limerick Challenge
Limerick Poetry Challenge Write a limerick (learn how to write one here) about a famous poet or about writing...
Clever Couplets Poetry Challenge
Leave your endless odes at the door please! Sometimes all it takes is a couplet to hit the spot....
Nostalgic Poetry Challenge
This poetry challenge comes from poet Roy E. Peterson: From your past, write and provide us a poem about something...
Inspiring Muse Poetry Challenge
. This poetry challenge comes from poet Roy E. Peterson: Provide a poem about your inspiring Muse. If you name...
Poetry Challenge: Classic Poem and Response
. In this poetry challenge, poet Roy E. Peterson challenges you to post a classic poem and a poetic response...
Poetry Challenge: Anachro-Poem
. Challenge: Take a well-known figure from history or literature and insert him or her into a modern-day situation. Choose...
When Less Is More: A Poetry Challenge
. When Less Is More An SCP Poetry Challenge by James A. Tweedie In a recent email exchange with a...
Sonku Poetry Challenge: Write a Sonnet-Haiku
. Epic poet and poetry video maker Andrew Benson Brown created a bit of excitement with his invented sonnet-haiku or...
‘Jack and Jill’ Style Nursery Rhymes Challenge
. Poet Paul A. Freeman challenges you to write a nursery rhyme in the style of the Mother Goose classic...
The Man from Porlock Poetry Challenge
. One of England’s best-known poems, “Kubla Khan,” was written by Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Waking from an...
A Poem on ‘Nothing’ Poetry Challenge
. Poets create marvels of linguistic delights about anything and everything… but what about nothing? Can your Muse capture the...
Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge: Roadrunner in a Sprinkler During Texas Drought
. Phil S. Rogers captured these photos of a roadrunner seeking relief in his sprinkler during drought-like conditions in Texas....
Poem of Passion Challenge
. Scenes of passion in literature, on the stage, and on the silver screen, have captivated audiences for years. How...
World Poetry Day Limerick Poetry Challenge
. In celebration of World Poetry Day, write a limerick on the theme of World Poetry Day, poetry in general,...
Poetry Challenge: Equilateral Proverbs
Equilateral Proverbs: A Poetry Challenge by James A. Tweedie Construct a rhyming, rhythmic intelligible proverb or saying where the first...
2022 FIFA World Cup Poetry Challenge
. Write a poem about the 2022 FIFA World Cup happening now and post it in the comments section below....
Prose-That’s-Really-a-Sonnet Poetry Challenge
. Construct a convincing paragraph of well-written, coherent prose that also happens to be a properly composed Shakespearean sonnet. This...
Metrical Clerihew Poetry Challenge
. The clerihew is a relatively new poetry form introduced by Edmund Clerihew Bentley in 1905. It is usually a...
Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge: Fireplaces
. This photo comes to us from Joshua C. Frank of Texas. Write an ekphrastic poem based on it and...
Rhyme Two Random Words Poetry Challenge
. Your poem can be serious, silly, or something in-between. List the “random words” you chose as your poem’s title...
Poetry Challenge: Write a Classic Movie-Inspired Poem
. Write a poem that casts a fresh eye over a classic movie---any form, any length, any mood. This challenge...
Poetry Challenge: Write a Tetra-Pentameter Poem
Write a rhyming poem that works as either ten lines of tetrameter or eight lines of pentameter. Post it in...
Bedtime Prayer Poetry Challenge
. This challenge comes form poet James A. Tweedie: Perhaps the most familiar of all formal, English-language poems is the...
What Rhymes with Orange? Poetry Challenge
. Write a poem rhyming the word "orange" with something else. Post it in the comments below. This challenge comes...
Turn a Famous Poem into a Limerick: Poetry Challenge
. Choose a famous poem and write it in limerick form, putting the title of the original poem at the...
Poetry Challenge: A ‘Raven’-like Poem on the Death of Edgar Allan Poe
. Edgar Allan Poe was known for strange and mysterious tales, in poetry and prose. Perhaps fittingly, the circumstances surrounding...
Split Nursery Rhyme Poetry Challenge
. Split a line from a nursery rhyme and use the halves to open and close a poem. Post yours...
National Poetry Month Challenge: What Is Poetry?
April is National Poetry Month. On this occasion, take words about poetry from a famous poet, or anyone else you...
Poetry Challenge: Write a Sonnet in Iambic Monometer
. This challenge was conceived by Paul A. Freeman after reading a sonnet in iambic monometer by James A. Tweedie,...
Turn a Joke into a Poem—Poetry Challenge
Poet Susan Jarvis Bryant challenges her fellow poets to adapt a favorite joke into a poem with meter and rhyme....
Poetry Challenge: ‘My country used to be… ‘
New York poet Joe Tessitore challenges poets to begin a poem with these words: My country used to...
Homophonic Poetry Challenge
by Joe Tessitore and James A. Tweedie We are issuing a challenge to all poets to create poems that incorporate...
Gerard, I'm happy to have such an assurance from a friend of his! He, of course, is the source of…
Your sonnet-psalm is lovely. And, I love "Natural Remedies" even more: the rhymes, especially in the first four lines; lots…
Joe, thank you for the reference to Jung. I did not know about this negative anima archetype and find this…
It's interesting, Joe, that you mention the film "Lilies of the Field." I've mentioned to you that my mother was…
Thank you so much, Golan! Yes, I aimed for that "relentless" rhyme scheme to mirror the relentless moral instruction Aunt…
