National Poetry Month: The Challenge

IT’S NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!!!!!!! Yayyyyy!!! :D :D :D :D

In honor of National Poetry Month, I am asking you to write a poem a day for the entire month of April. (Yes, that is 30 poems!) They do not have to be long. You can write about whatever you would like however you would like, or you could follow these 30 prompts.

For English 11- This will be worth one bonus test grade for the 4th marking period.
For CEP 12-  This will be worth one bonus in-class essay grade for the 4th marking period. 

1. Grab the closest book. Go to page 29. Write down 10 words that catch your eye. Use 7 of words in a poem.

2. Write about a poem about a superhero coming to your house and confronting you about something. Somewhere in the poem, you have to state what your superpower is.

3. Write an anti-love letter to someone or something. Be creative with it!

4. Make a list of seven words that have the same vowel sounds (like bee, treat, pepperoni, eagle) and use them in a repetitive way throughout a poem.

5. Write a poem about a weird fact or several odd facts that you know.

6. Write a poem in two sections about two completely different things. Have the title link both items today in a surprising way.

7. Write a poem about your favorite food.

8. Think about your favorite type of weather. Write a poem about what this type of weather makes you feel.

9. Write a poem about how awesome you are.

10. Think of a time when you were a little kid. Write a poem about it.

11. Write a poem that begins with the last thing you can remember someone saying to you today or yesterday. See if you can use that line two or three times.

12. Write a poem inspired by your favorite song or artist.

13. Write a poem as an ode to an object near you. (An ode is a poem praising a single person or item.)

14. Think of the nicest thing someone ever said to you. Write a poem about a rainy day and something flooding. End the poem with the good thing someone said.

15. Write a poem that describes your hair.

16. Make a list of ten images of things you have seen in the last 24 hours. Use all of them in a poem.

17. Write a poem that includes the word pigarlik, which is 16th century word for a bald head, which apparently resembled peeled garlic.

18. Write a poem about something small that is only 5 lines long.

19. Close your eyes and listen to the sounds around you. If the sounds are peaceful, write a poem with a violent word as the title. If the sounds are loud, write a poem with a kind word as the title.

20. Write a poem about your shoes.

21. Write a poem with the opposite hand that you write with or if you type your poems on the computer, use only one hand to type.

22. Write a poem that only had five syllables in each line. Give the poem a long title.

23. Write a poem where the last word of the first line begins with the first letter of your name, and the last word of the second line begins with the second letter of your name until you have spelled out your first and/or your last name.

24. Write a poem that has the word “love” hidden in it somewhere. You cannot use the word “love” by itself, it must be hidden (such as in the word “glove” or in two words like “halo venom”).

25. Write a poem where a literary figure shows up and tells you something and/or gives you something.

26. Write a poem to your future self, but do not say it is to your future self, address the poem to a president or rockstar.

27. Write a poem through the voice of five-year-old you.

28. Make a list of your favorite words today. Write a poem that uses 90% of the words you wrote down.

29. Write a poem about a building that is of some significance to you.

30. Write a poem giving thanks to a poet or to writing a poem a day. Use a line from one of the poems you wrote this month to either begin or end it.