Welcome to the prompt section for this year's GloPoWriMo!
Here you will find a prompt for each day of the month (or at least as best as I can). If you come up with any prompts yourself, please feel free to share them also. The more prompts we have the more food for thought there is!
If you've written a poem inspired by one of our prompts we would love for you to share it in the poetry section here:
DAY 1:
Today is 1st April — the day of fools, tricks, and mischief. Your prompt is to write a poem that deceives, disguises, or delights in misdirection. A poem that wears a mask. Here are some ways in:
Write a poem with a twist ending. Let the reader believe one thing… then pull the rug out.
Let a trickster figure (Loki, Anansi, a fox, your cheeky cousin) narrate the poem.
Write a poem that pretends to be something it’s not: a recipe, a letter, a weather report — but something is off.
Begin honestly, but let the poem unravel into nonsense or surreal humour.
OR write a very serious poem that ends with a subtle (or not-so-subtle) joke.
Bonus challenge: Hide a lie somewhere in your poem. Let the reader try to spot it.