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Welcome back to another Wednesday Wordplay Workout!

Prompt: Write a poem based on a song title.

Example:
"Song: I Love You Out Loud by Larissa Lambert

"I want the kind of love that doesn't deny me 3 times
One that proclaims me boldly in public places
Like gospel
One that isn't a spell of dangled carrots and excuses
More than the absence of abuses
More than boxes checked off like a list
I wish love wouldn't forget to tell me goodnight
That would be a sweet dream
I wish it would choose me like the first pick on a sports team
I wish it wouldn't shine
Like fool's gold
Pretty to look at but never able to be touched
I want it to call for me in a crowd across continents
Like an invisible string
I want it to wrap around me and hold me
Like an invisible string
But if it's invisible
Is it even there?
If it's quiet when it counts
Is it even there?"

Let's work those pens!

-Christopher

Welcome back to another Wednesday Wordplay Workout!

Prompt: Write a poem that starts with the line "And so it begins"

Example:

"And so it begins

A new chapter

Once again

A story to be read

And written by oneself

Each word

Will be written by your own pen

Every punctuation

Placed with intention

You didn't choose when the next chapter 

Would begin 

But you can choose how you will write the story

Even if the pen trembles in your hand

Even if it slips

You can always choose to keep writing"

Let's work those pens!

-Christopher

Hey everyone, welcome back to another Wednesday Wordplay Workout!

Prompt: Write a poem from the perspective of your favorite animal, but don't say what it is. Others will have to guess what your animal is in the comments.

Example:

"I pound my chest like a battle drum
Climb trees in the jungle with ease
I am apex predator
Yet I am herbivore
Make my own protein
Tell the plants what to become in my body
Of black and silver hair
Like your wise
I am 98.3% you
Like you, I am beast
Like you, I am wild and powerful, and free
And like a poet who sees the world in a different way
I am almost human, like you"

What animal do you think it is? 🤔

Happy writing!

-Christopher

Welcome back to another Wednesday Wordplay Workout!

Prompt: Write a poem describing summer

Example:
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"The sun is relentless
It's hot
Like too hot
Like even the buildings look sunburnt
Plastered with mango hues
And the mangoes are ripe
Something sweet like popsicles on summer nights
Refreshing like splashing in the waves
And pool days
The summer
Is a rebellion against the rigidity of the school year
It's a time when we kickback
And relax
Sparkle like fireworks and lighting
In late night thunderstorms
That remind us of devastating
Powerful things
To break our yearly routine
Force us to look up every once in a while
To marvel at something brilliant
And make us want to be a part of something brilliant too"

Let's work those pens!

-Christopher

Welcome back to another Wednesday Wordplay Workout!

Today's prompt: Write a poem that is bittersweet.

Example:

"Being young is bittersweet
Youth rhymes, somehow
With carefree
With slides and playgrounds
It sounds fun
But a kid always wishes
They were older
Wishes they were allowed
To do more things
They want responsibilities
But don't know what that means
Being old is bittersweet
Like the wisdom of gray hairs
Like having lived enough
To have interesting stories to tell
But age leaves a certain taste on the tongue
Makes one crave being young
Just for fun
Life
Is bittersweet
So live, sweetness
Chew past the aftertaste
And live"

Let's work those pens,

-Christopher

Welcome back to another Wednesday Wordplay Workout!

Today's prompt: Write a poem to America 🇺🇸

Example:

"I see you, America
I see your red
Striped with blood from battles
Won
It is part of your strength
The other part is the white of peace
The change that turns bombs
Into fireworks
That scatter the sky with something
Vibrant to paint its blue
That blue
It is sadness
Real
True
But the blue leaves space for your stars
Not just states but the people
And just like the stars give your flag its beauty
I think it's the people that give you your beauty too"

Let's work those pens!

-Christopher