15th Poetry Prompt... Extended!

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Published: Mar 17, 2012

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I know most of you poets are busy with NaPoWriMo. Sooooooo, I'm extending our poetry prompt until May 15!

A piece of advice: you can hit two birds in one stone.

Why not try using this prompt in one of your NaPoWriMo outputs? Wise eh?

Go join LitPlease's 15th Poetry Prompt!

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Featured Deviant!

Here's the featured deviant for our latest completed poetry prompt!

POETRY
Joy in Sorrowi.
A simple backflip
to tease the audience – now
take a deeper breath.
ii.
A beat of silence;
the audience hanging on.
The clowns know you're there.
iii.
Do not twist that way
before the tall man in black
walking on crutches.
iv.
Look up – but not down.
Let go if you want, but the
net won't save you now.
v.
Youthful insurgents
flip together in perfect
synchronization.
vi.
A railway station.
A goodbye, a torn letter.
The snowfall was never so
cold.
Joy in Sorrow by SilverInkblot

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Current Prompt

POETRY #15: Kitchen Drama

Have you tried cooking a dish? Well there are a lots of steps involved - from preparing and cutting the ingredients, to actually cooking it.

But have you ever thought about what these ingredients feel when they undergo these steps? Imagine a potato, moments away from being sliced? Would it shout? Cry? What would it feel and say?

This is the topic for the 15th poetry prompt.

1. For this exercise, we will focus with personification where we give traits and feelings to non-living objects.

2. Have a particular dish in mind. Select one of its ingredients. Your selected ingredient will be your voice in the poem. Write using the first person.

3. Take note of the these general steps in cooking. These steps will guide you as to the progression of your poem.

a. Before preparation - when your selected ingredient is still whole and untouched. What is your ingredient anticipating?
b. Preparation - when your selected ingredient will undergo slicing, cutting, mashing, chopping. Would it feel pain?
c. Cooking - when your selected ingredient will be fried, boiled, sauteed, poached, heated in the microwave.
d. Finished product - when your selected ingredient is ready to be served. Would it feel happy doing its purpose? Would it feel robbed of its right to exist?

4. You can choose any form of poetry and use any number of stanzas, as long as the steps mentioned above is shown.

5. Highlight what your selected ingredient would feel. Make it dramatic and do it with flair.

Deadline of submissions is on the 15th of May. The featured piece will be chosen from 16th to 19th. A new prompt will also be posted in the said period.

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