Today’s challenge is to write a Liwuli inspired by your choice of subject.
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[Image description: A rainbow-coloured elaborate numeral 28 with the words 'Your choice' underneath in black. End image description.]
Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by a random passage from a book.
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| Image source: Page Turner Awards 2020: City Fiction Prize |
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[Image description: Against a dark background, a hardback book is open to let random, glowing letters spill upwards from its blank, white pages. End image description.]
Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by love.
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| Image source: Guardian article: “What is love – and is it all in the mind?” |
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[Image description: An image that resembles a series of simple cartoon loveheart outlines as if cut out of successive layers receding backwards, pale pink on the top layer and shading through to the deep red of the central shape. Vaguely resembles the opening of the old-fashioned Warner Bros. cartoons. End image description.]
Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by shoes.
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| Image source: Guardian article: “Expandable shoes for children aim to cut landfill waste” |
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[Image description: A pile of miscellaneous children's shoes and slippers, many grubby, worn, or torn, in a big, jumbled pile. End image description.]
Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by a disastrous meal.
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| Image source: Manchester Evening News article: “Christmas dinner disasters: Burnt the pigs in blankets? Dropped the turkey? Don't worry you're not alone” |
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[Image description: On a polished wooden table is an enormous plate piled high with what looks like roast potatoes, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, carrots that still have their green tops, and some kind of pale roast meat with dark, crispy bits. face-down in the plate is a person with light, tan skin, short, dark brown hair, and a red sweater over a white collared shirt, wearing a sky blue paper crown. Their features are invisible and they're clutching a sharp knife in the hand nearest the viewer. There are condiments and shiny Christmas crackers on the table, along with folded white napkins. End image description.]
Today’s challenge is to write a Limerick inspired by your choice of subject.
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[Image description: A rainbow-coloured elaborate numeral 20 with the words 'Your choice' underneath in black. End image description.]
Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by a deity.
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| Image source: Sporcle quiz called “Deities And Prophets By Religion” (See if you can beat my score!) |
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[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.]
Today’s challenge is to write a Rondeau Redoublé inspired by your choice of subject.
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[Image description: A rainbow-coloured elaborate numeral 11 with the words 'Your choice' underneath in black. End image description.]
Today’s challenge is to write a Villanelle inspired by your choice of subject.
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[Image description: A rainbow-coloured elaborate numeral 10 with the words 'Your choice' underneath in black. End image description.]
A whole week done! Well done! Today’s challenge is to write a your choice of poetry form inspired by a patron saint.
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| Image source: A CNN gallery of images entitled “Who is your patron saint?”. The painting is called “The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs” by Fra Angelico as part of an altarpiece. |
Alternatively, you can seek inspiration in the Wikipedia “On This Day” article.
[Image description: A colour painting done in the Mediaeval style of around 65 human figures in three rows against a gold background. Most of the figures are looking as though they're heading in a series of queues towards the left of the picture. Some appear to be talking to each other, and a couple are looking towards the viewer. All have gold haloes, and they're all standing so close to each other that they overlap. They are dressed in a variety of clothes from different eras in a variety of colours, though blue, black, green, pink, and a kind of light, reddish-orange predominate. Some are dressed as monks, bishops, or nuns, others as kings, some as nobles, and one as something resembling a Roman soldier. They mostly have very pale skin, though a few of them are tan. Many of them appear old or middle-aged, though not all, and the vast majority of the ostensibly female saints are ranged in the bottom of the three rows. End image description.]
Today’s challenge is to write a Triolet inspired by your choice of subject.
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[Image Description: A rainbow-coloured elaborate numeral 3 with the words 'Your choice' underneath in black. End image description.]
One last piece! Today’s challenge is to write a Lipogram inspired by a piece of music. If you need any further support with the form, the “...
