How is the challenge going for you? I am now four poems behind, which is honestly better than usual for this time in the challenge.
I just came across this journal online, and its spring issue is lovely. Here is the link if you want to check out the issue: https://www.westtrestlereview.com/spring_2026.html. I plan to read more of West Trestle Review and more of Sumitra Singam whose conversational poem so beautifully circles around to the initial image (perfect for its title, meaning rebirth and related to karma in the Hindu religion).
For the first prompt, write a poem that begins with a starting image or event and moves on before circling back to the original image.
I so enjoy the conversational tone and humor of the poem (along with the musicality of some lines). The second prompt is mix an event with retelling a conversation and joining the two.
For the third prompt, write a poem about Cleopatra and what you would have learned from her in a former life or a poem about what modern advice she would give.
The last prompt is write a poem using the following list of words: “spiral,” “pocket,” “squatting,” “wonder,” “belonging,” “dust,” “taken,” “spent” and “crushed.”
For the first bonus prompt: write about whatever these broken shells inspire.
For the second bonus prompt, notice how this fungus looks like shells and write poem about this photo or a comparison of the two photos.
Good luck writing!