February Poetry Project: Week 2 Prompts

Poetry Friday is a blogging community from across the world and across the kidlitosphere. Today’s link-up host is Molly Hogan at Nix the Comfort Zone.

We are nearly halfway through the 9th Annual February Daily Poem Project.

For several years — in order to practice writing in community — my blog hosted a poetry project. We moved to Facebook in 2017 to accommodate the number of poets and writers who wanted to participate.

2021 Theme: Bodies

Read more about this theme at my Week 1 project post here.

Every day, a member of the project shares a prompt related to our theme. With their permission, I am posting those prompts here on my blog, for those who’d like to follow along with the project. Your daily task is to write a poem based on that day’s body-inspired prompt.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR PROJECT NEWBIES: The point of this exercise is to practice the habit of writing regularly, even if it’s just for one month.

For those of you following along, the first week’s prompts are in this post. Feel free to post your poetic responses in the comments.

Are you thinking, “What is this poetry project of which you speak, Laura?” Read about this year’s project here. And there is background on this project — now in its ninth year! — at this post.

Ready for the next set of prompts?

DAY 8: Monday, February 8, 2021
Prompt and photographs by Buffy Silverman (Shared with permission)

I intended to share a snowy-snout for my prompt, as that’s the body part that makes me laugh most these days. But I realized that might be too similar to Jone’s gorgeous brown-eyed pooch [from Day 6], and there might be some in the group who are not canine inspired. So I’m offering an alternative–snow-covered tree skin if you prefer. Choose either one or both for your Monday inspiration. (I’m thankful to have had a reason to take my camera out on this frigid Sunday!)

 

DAY 9: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Prompt from Heather Meloche (Shared with permission)

LUNGS.

They are being watched/noticed/worried over by most everyone right now, but for me, they have been a central focus for a long time. My dad suffers daily from COPD. I also remind myself constantly to “Breathe, Heather. Breathe,” so much so that I tattooed it on my wrist as a reminder. Write about lungs or what they remind you of.

 

 

DAY 10: Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Prompt from Matthew Winner (Shared with permission)

Shortly before our first real snow at the end of January, I walked down to get the mail and noticed a ball of feathers just behind our cul de sac’s bank of mailboxes. After grabbing the mail I turned around to get a more proper look. There, with one wing splayed out, was a finch, lifeless and looking no more assuming than a fallen leaf. I thought about grabbing a shovel and moving the bird to our back woods, but then the snow fell. Mercifully, that bird has been buried beneath a pile of snow ever since. Painfully, I cannot help picturing what’s beneath that small pile of snow at the end of my driveway.This is the memory I’m passing to you today as you contemplate bodies.

DAY 11: Thursday, February 11, 2021
Prompt from Molly Hogan (Shared with permission)

I first encountered this Richard Avedon photo at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine. The photo is of Andy Warhol and here’s a link to an article that gives the backstory.https://www.history.com/…/andy-warhol-shot-valerie…Happy writing, everyone! To catch up on any prompts you  missed, Week 1 is here.Tweet