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 Poetry: April 04, 2018 Issue [#8835] |
  Poetry This week: Prompted ~ Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading   More Newsletters By This Editor   1. About this Newsletter 2. A Word from our Sponsor 3. Letter from the Editor 4. Editor's Picks 5. A Word from Writing.Com 6. Ask & Answer 7. Removal instructions 
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That's the point of the prompt - to make me see the word, seek it's image - now, April can also be a person's name. Thus, an ode to April can speak to a time of year, or a person - see how the mind can play with a word - I'll bet you can find more images for an ode or sonnet, or limerick, perhaps 
Words ~ random or themed. Our April above can add crocus, yellow, Easter, river. The challenge can be to use all or some of the words to craft a poem. Or, April can be the theme and the challenge be forbidding the writer from using the following words while weaving a poem about April (person or time).
Quotes - by persons famous or infamous, literary or tongue-in-cheek. Interpreting the quote in verse is a challenging exercise, as we read the words, then interpret them, or re-interpret them, in our own lyric voices. 
Images. Pictures or drawings, with or without a theme or genre. Interpret the image in verse, with or without form. Looking at a painting, a picture, we each interpret it with our eyes, our senses, as a unique image. The poem is the expression of that image, as we see it, and imagine it.
Crafting/forming the poem ~ metric, or free verse, or story poem. Some challenges and publications seek verse that weaves images with patterns (forms) - sonnet, haiku, free verse, blank verse, and so on. Most of these also have a theme or genre, or group image (i.e., Horror - ghosts). Each of us has a unique interpretations of these images in both word and form. 
Themes ~ This is not the same as word themes, it's generally broader, more expansive. Some poetry magazines seek themed submissions for an anthology or quarterly issue and consider those submissions as distinct from general open submissions. Anthologies also seek themed poems, using form, or image, or genre to focus the work. 
