Poetry Prompt: Emotional and Feelings are Visitors.

I read a quote I wish I’d read in high school.  I don’t have the exact quote in front of me, but it went something like this:  Feelings are visitors, they come and they go.”  Write a poem about a frequent emotional visitor.  This could be a good visitor, a positive or pleasurable emotion that has left you, and you could talk about what made it leave.  It could be a negative emotion that keeps coming into your life.  How do you get that emotion to leave?  Why does it keep coming back?  What do you do if this uninvited guest just won’t leave you?

Form Suggestions:

Make this a FREE verse sonnet.

• Put 10 syllables in each line, but the beat of each line is free.  Make the rhythm of the line just sound good to you. 
• Write 14 of these 10 syllable lines.
• If you want to do what Shakespeare often did for his monologues on stage, end with a rhyming couplet as a way of signaling that the poem is done.

OR write it however you like:  free verse, traditional sonnet, a blank verse monologue, a dialogue between you and the emotion, short, long, whatever you feel inspired to try.

NOTE:  since there are a lot of visitors this could actually be used for lots of your emotions and then you would have a chapbook, or perhaps a full book of poetry.