Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by a deity.
If you’re having trouble choosing,
this tool may be able to inspire you.
Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.
[Image description: A grid of 25 images of deities and prophets. Left to right, top to bottom there are as follows: Pele, a long-haired, slender woman with flowers in her long, red hair, smiling over a handful of flame. Adnoartina, a multi-coloured reptile of some kind. Olorun, a black man in elaborate armour with glowing golden eyes and symbols on his bald head, conjuring a glowing pattern in front of him. Amaterasu, an east Asian woman with immensely long, brown hair wearing an intricate robe and an elaborate crown or halo radiating complex light. Odin, a one-eyed, ancient, bearded, white man wearing Norse armour, including a winged helmet, against a backdrop of snow and ice. Jesus, depicted as a white man with a beard and shoulder-length, light-brown hair, wearing a blue cloak over a pink robe, hand raised over an elaborate heart symbol, glowing on his chest. Nüwa, a tan-skinned woman with long, wild, dark, straight hair, holding something up to the shaft of light breaking through the heavens, wearing a short, white dress against a rocky backdrop. YHWH, a series of four abstract figures of different colours rising out of the earth and sending tendrils of themselves into the sky. Huitzilopochtli, a fierce, blue-skinned, armoured, humanoid, winged figure raising a short, heavy, snake-like crook over his elaborate, feathered headdress against a background of flame. Nzambi a Mpungu, a Central African carving of a bald figure with golden-tanned skin holding one palm to his own cheek. Viracocha, a ruddy-skinned, armoured being with an enormous, elaborate, feathered headdress/ helmet and golden armour. Baron Samedi, a skull-faced figure in a frock coat and top hat adorned with a skull, smoking a cigar against a backdrop of sunset in either a forest or a graveyard. Hera, a pale woman with long, dark hair, looking stern as she holds a golden staff topped with a lily, in a cloak of peacock feather design over a white shift. Gautama Buddha, a golden-skinned figured with dark hair piled atop his head against a jungle backdrop, sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, in an orange shift which leaves one shoulder bare, raising one hand. Agloolik, a fierce-looking, spiny fish-man diving deep into a sea through which sun rays are still penetrating. Ahura Mazda, a yellow-robed, dark-bearded figure holding a disc and a tulip-like flower against a tumultuous backdrop. Enki, a blue-skinned, humanoid figure with a horned, golden headdress, and flowing hair that looks like the sea, with an epaulette like a piranha's face. Isis, a golden-brown-skinned woman with an enormous, eagle-feathered headdress against the backdrop of a full moon while holding something red to her chest. Muhammad, an elaborately carved disc in either bronze or polished wood with Arabic calligraphy at its centre. Ganesha, an elephant-headed person sitting cross-legged, wearing a colourful headdress and flower garland around its neck. Kulkulkan, a spiky, winged serpent curling through the air against a tumultuous sky with sun breaking through heavy cloud. Confucius, a middle-aged, heavyset, Chinese man wearing blue and gold robes, a long, dark brown beard and moustache, and amazing eyebrows. The Morrigan, a very pale woman with black hair and a raven on her far shoulder against a disc which seems to show some kind of moon carving. Jupiter, a scowling, elderly, tan-skinned man with a white beard and hair crowned in a laurel wreath, grasping a bolt of lightning against a blue sky scrawled with white cloud trails. FSM, a creature with snail-like eyestalks which seems to be made out of cooked spaghetti wrapped around two meatballs. End image description.]
