Poetry Prompt: A Springboard Poem

The hardest part of writing a poem every day is getting started.  One way to get started is to have the first line already there and waiting for you.  I do this several ways.  I keep a notebook where I just write lines I like and life form books I’m reading.  It could be the first line of every poem in a book I just picked up.  It could be incomplete phrases that I just found neat-o-mosquito.

Pick a line that gets you to thinking or feeling and then write the rest of the poem.  When you revise you could revise the line lifted, or maybe leave it out all together.

Here are a sampling of lines that you can use, or pick something on your own.  Don’t over think this, just write freely.  Try to start writing and don’t stop to reread or revise for 5 minutes.  Then you can start rewriting and perfecting.

SAMPLE LINES: 

·         It’s like the breeze is looking for something lost

·         Somebody somewhere is always in pain

·         When I don’t know what to do  I know

·         A lot can be said about miscommunication

·         Eight crows huddled in the grass

·         The sun is seen daily, but not studied.

·         Some words are as sharp as shards of glass

·         Sometimes a miracle is not what happens, but

·         Can a slob be a perfectionist?

·         You’re never the person you started out being.

·         A dock is a bridge with no ambition.

·         I’m spending more and more time trying to remember

·         I used to wonder what it was like to be

·         I had a knack for going too far

·         The six o’clock news surrounded my house with fear

·         I want to do nothing and do it with gusto.

·         Faith is the paperbag I breathe into when

·         My life was a hat filled with slips of paper

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR WORK AS A REPLY TO THE PROMPT.