Enjoying your extended stay at Chez Home? Perhaps not. Let’s try to pretend a room is an exotic resort that you are lucky to visit. If it helps, turn off all the lights at night and see if you really can navigate your way from the couch to the fridge without at least one dinged shin.

To get us in the right mood, let’s use Jennifer Baer’s travel posters:

For the first prompt, describe the one drooping fern as if it were the entire emerald Amazon forest. Make this poem extravagantly ridiculous. For the kind of tone needed, think of the True Facts YouTube series. Here is the “True Facts: Carnivorous Plants” episode.

For the next prompt, write an ode to your bathroom, either the entire room or perhaps one fixture. After my recent plumbing tribulations, a functioning toilet is the equivalent of a bejeweled throne in value. Long Sit the Queen, er, something like that.

Or bonus prompt: write an ekphrastic poem and really catch the homage paid to toilet paper in this poster.

And for the last prompt, write a synopsis of the last show you watched, but describe only the objects in the scenes, nothing about the people. You could just make this an ekphrastic prompt and describe the living room in a sitcom. Or if you watched a detective show and a murder occurred, you could describe the murder weapon as if it were the leading character. What did it do, where did it go, when was it found, etc.?

Good luck! Have fun on your exciting vacation and poetry escapade!