Hope and Rainbows – Hysteria poetry prompts for May

In April, I was writing poems using the fabulous prompts from NapoWriMo.Net. Some were very straightforward, some were very weird. At least they kept me writing through my lockdown days. There’s been a rush of creativity in all forms throughout the lockdown. Personally, I have been knitting for new arrivals in my family (please don’t name anyone Corvid or Corona!) and writing lots of poems about isolation and nature. I even got my paints out after a long rest; my first project was a rainbow, a symbol of hope which lots of children (especially) have been putting in their windows for passers by to enjoy. So there are two things we could be writing poems about, hope and rainbows. Hope: a good subject for a little poem. And to get you started, you could always try an acrostic. writing acrositcs is a great way of getting into an idea or a story, the first letters of the lines read out the title or the subject as you go down the page. There’s scope to move things round to fit your content and you can choose long or short lines; you can rhyme if you want to, too. here’s one I wrote about Hope. Hope Hope comes in Opens our eyes Points the way forward Eases our anxiety I’ve always thought of Faith, Hope and Charity as the three virtues; researching them has shown me that they are – in religious terms. Maybe there’s scope for a poem including these three in one poem. A Google search just led me to the Classical virtues: Prudence, Courage, Temperance and Justice any of...
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