Our prompt this week is Shopping. Write your own poem about a shopping experience.
I will be posting a Pantoum for this one on Monday so give that form a try if you like.

Pantoum Description: Like the villanelle, lines are repeated throughout the poem. The poem can be any length but the rule is that the second and fourth lines of one quatrain will be repeated in the next as the first and third lines. This pattern repeats until the final stanza when the first and third lines are taken from the second and fourth lines of the second to last quatrain, the second line of the last is taken from the third line of the first stanza and finally the last line of the poem will be the same as the opening line in the first stanza. (from Dan Gilbert’s The Poet’s Cookbook)

The written description of the Pantoum can be a little confusing so it might be helpful to look at some of the examples here: Pantoum | Academy of American Poets

Our prompt this week is Worry. We all have something to worry about, see if writing a poem about it helps you worry it out. Please share or link your worries (or poem) in the comments.

Write a poem that describes a scene, something right in front of you or somewhere in your imagination. Please share or link your scene in the comments.

You can cause trouble, you can get in trouble, or you can just be troubled. One way or another, there’s got to be a poem in there somewhere. Please share or link your trouble poem in the comments.

Summer has passed and many of us have completed our season of travels. Some still have adventures planned and others may wish they could just stay home. Please share or link to your travel poem in the comments.

On Monday, I will share a Villanelle I wrote about travel. If you want to try a Villanelle, here is a description of the form:
The villanelle is a 19 line poem which consists of 5 verses of three (tercets) and a concluding quatrain. There are refrained (repeated) lines throughout the poem that are established in the opening verse. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem’s two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as:
A1 b A2
a b A1
a b A2
a b A1
a b A2
a b A1 A2

Our prompt this week is “Sharing”.
If you post your poem to this site, it’s automatically about sharing, so this one should be easy.

Our prompt this week is “Slam”.
I’ve attempted to write a piece that could be delivered as spoken word, maybe even at a poetry slam, and now I’m encouraging you to do the same.
I look forward to reading your own piece that could be shouted from the rooftops (or into a coffee shop microphone).

Our prompt this week is “Opportunities”.
I have a Haiku to share for this one next week.
Feel free to share your own opportunistic Haiku or any other musings that this prompts.

Our prompt this week is “Companions”.
Who or what is with you all the time, or maybe at just the right time?
Write something about your companions.

Our prompt this week is “More than just a place”.
Are there places that, for you, are more than just a place? Somewhere you can go for meaning, or solace, or memories?