prompt: write a landay. Landays are 22-syllable couplets, generally rhyming. The form comes from Afghanistan, where women often use it in verses that range from the sly and humorous to […]
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there is no tomorrow (18/30)
Prompt: And now for our (as always, optional) prompt, which takes us from 2015 back to the 1700s. After all, it’s the eighteenth of April, which means that today is […]
the beautiful bruise (17/30)
going off prompt again today. … e— was incoherent laying in the midst of a bloody sheet there was nothing to waste it was her own blood and she would […]
Invasion (16/30)
no prompt today. just went through an unexpected medical experience last night and wondered what it would be like to survive such a thing on obsidian. when the planetians arrived, […]
tell me of love (15/30)
prompt: write a poem that addresses itself or some aspect of its self (i.e. “Dear Poem,”) queen aya sits alone, surrounded by her historical poems in the obsidian creation archives. […]
the first time i saw obsidian [planetian memoir] (12/30)
Describe in great detail your favorite room, place, meal, day, or person. You can do this in paragraph form. Now cut unnecessary words like articles and determiners (a, the, that) […]
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upon being discovered (11/30)
just finished my 8th event in five days and today’s official prompt feels too hard for me but i do have a poem. this is from aya’s last journal, which […]
principles of obsidian, a new world (10/30)
write an abecedarian poem – a poem with a structure derived from the alphabet. … when other people came to the planet that queens aya and e— had discovered, there […]
the first child (9/30)
Write a visual poem. I will attempt to write a poem shaped like a pregnant queen. … shh she is stunning sleeping small i feel humbled expansive feel all miraculous […]
counter lesson on currency (8/30)
write a palinode. And what’s that? It’s a poem in which the poet retracts a statement made in an earlier poem. counter lesson on currency yesterday queen aya taught you […]