Hello Beautiful Thinkers,

The metaphor that your emotions came from your heart is so well established that we don’t even question it anymore. Scientifically they can track the reactions that emotions cause in your brain, but I guess that’s not as poetic. Write a poem that suggests an alternate source for your emotions. It might seem something ridiculous because you’re working against such a well-established metaphor but dare to be different BTs. Push past feeling ridiculous or embrace being ridiculous if it helps. Make the source something unlikely and silly if you like.

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Do you ever feel like you have to fake things too much? I’ve come into roles at both jobs that involve welcoming new employees. Some days these aren’t bad roles to fill but there are still days where I have to fake it. I hope I do it convincingly enough. Write a poem about feeling fake or like you have to be something different from yourself.

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I dug up the old folder I used in high school the other day, and it has made me nostalgic. I have a few friends from that time that I still talk to but the rest I’m left wondering about. What paths did their lives take? I could probably find out a lot from social media but how accurate an image would I have of their lives? Write a poem that imagines the life of someone you used to know. Go deeper than their job and location, imagine their emotional state and relationships they might have now.

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Is there any place or time of day where/when you feel free? How often do you get to enjoy this feeling of freedom? How long does it last? What troubles are you letting go of in this place or time? Write a poem about the healing power of having a place or time when you can let everything go. If you don’t have such a time or place, try to find it today. Even if it is five minutes extra in bed or something else small, give yourself a moment not to worry about anything.

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Write a poem about the fragility of people. Will you focus on how fragile the human body can be? Will your poem be about emotional fragility? Or will you explore how fragile the mind can be? Perhaps you’ll combine them in some way or another. Will this be a tragic poem about how we are all breakable in a way? Or will this be an uplifting poem about overcoming human fragility? Or will it be something else altogether?

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Pick an animal off the endangered species list. Write a poem about this animal. What threats does it face? What unique qualities does it have? What does it eat? Where does it live? What drew you to this animal? What do you like or find interesting about it? Learn as much as you can so that you can show this animal in your poem.

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Have you ever messed with someone out of pettiness or just to stir the pot? Write a poem about that metaphor of stirring the pot. Embrace it fully, tell us hat is in the pot. Add ingredients and spice up the recipe. What can the overall metaphor stand for? What can each small food metaphor stand for in association to the larger metaphor?

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We’ve all heard the phrase “it is all fun and games until someone loses an eye” right? I grew up thinking of the phrase very literally because I have a family member with a glass eye. But for today’s poem don’t take it so literally. Write a poem about the underlying danger of some fun activities. Show us the fun is worth the risk. Or if it isn’t, warn us off doing whatever this activity is.

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A lot of writers struggle with thoughts of self-doubt. Write a poem about that voice in your mind that questions if you’re good enough. Personify it, turn it into a villain, if you like. Where does this voice come from? How do you fight it? However much space you give to self-doubt in the poem though don’t let it have the final word. Save the end of the poem for feelings of hope, confidence, and determination. After all, as much as doubt plagues you, you wrote the poem.

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