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Sheetghost Poetry

What's haunting underneath the poems? Weekly prompts and short essays on poetry

By Robert Wood Lynn

· Launched a year ago

In this contemplative prompt, tell a half-story as a way to explore a shadow experience.

In this contemplative prompt, use the commanding voice of instruction to opine authoritatively on a subject you've entirely made up.

In this generative prompt, start listing things by changing the rules of the list as you go.

In this contemplative prompt, layer two metaphors on top of each other to yield a third, emotionally resonant figurative relationship.

In this generative prompt, write a poem about the birth of someone or something that indirectly depicts the life to come.

In this contemplative prompt, see what happens if you let yourself speak directly for only one tiny moment in a poem.

In this generative prompt, play with anadiplosis, bringing the end word of the previous line to into the next one and so forth.

In this contemplative prompt, let the reader forget about something before you come back to it.