1. Open a dictionary and flip through the pages. Select 3-5 words you happen to come across. Note the definition if you do not already know the word. Pick words you’ve not used in a poem before. Now, write a poem using the words.
2. Include a strange place name such as Hell, MI or Tombstone, AZ.
I’d be delighted if you posted your efforts (or links to your efforts) in the comments.
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I once put Climax, Saskatchewan in a poem.
I once wrote a poem called i have a dream about diamonds.
I do like this prompt and here are the results, which also includes a found phrase from a clipping my father had tucked in front of his dictionary:
The Muse
In diction he was most sagacious
my chief fallacy being a list of intentions
But love is such a vague term
with its many definitions and limitations
and my impertinence need not go disregarded.