7-Minute Poetry Challenge Kelly Bennett 7-Minute Poetry Challenge Kelly Bennett

Poetry Challenge #175-Say Cheese!

Today is National Cheese Lover’s Day—a perfect day to enjoy cheese all day long. Maybe some cream cheese on a bagel for breakfast, a nice slice of cheddar or swiss on your sandwich at lunch, and macaroni and cheese for dinner. MMMM!

But cheese is also one of the words most used by photographers trying to get their subjects to smile: “Say cheese,” they call before they click their camera.

Poetry Challenge #175

Say Cheeeeeese!

Jack & Bennett "Cheese n It" for #175 7-Minute Poetry Challenge. Click over The Fishbowl to try it yourself: https://www.kellybennett.com/fishbowlblog Could ...

For today’s prompt, find a photo with one or more people in it. If you are in the picture, do you remember what you were thinking at that moment?

What about the others in the picture? What about the photographer? Were they thinking of where they’d rather be? Did they have something to say to someone else in the picture?

What were they wishing, hoping, wanting at that moment?

Write a poem with real or imagine thoughts for the people in the picture. Include the people outside the picture—the photographer, onlookers, passersby, a person receiving the photo.

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing

Don’t Think Too Much About it; Just do it!

Remember to say CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 1737 days ago! We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. (This is one of Cindy’s.) If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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Poetry Challenge #165-Dino Romp-Pom

It’s said a picture is worth a thousand words, and so by way of sparing you reading 983 more:

Poetry Challenge #165

Dino Romp-Pom

Write a poem inspired by this image (borrowed from @visualverseanthology).

Set your time for 7 minutes

Set your intentions to POEM

Start writing! Don’t think too much—just do it!  

And when you’re finished, click over to @visualverseanthology to post—it might be published in the Visual Verse Anthology.

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 1680 days ago! (without a miss!!!) We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments. And scroll down for my happy news:

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