Poetry eZine ~ April 2012

Thursday, April 12

April 12th Prompt

Today, you may find yourself embracing puns with this prompt and, because I adore the example, a poem from YouTube.

Write a love letter from one inanimate object to another. Don't be afraid to use language that would otherwise be called a pun today. As an excellent example, feel free to follow this following link to a poem entitled "A love letter from a tooth brush to a bicycle tire." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIAQENsqcuM

This following poem comes to us from DM Denton and is entitled The Lavenders. About the poem, the author writes "In medieval and renaissance Europe servant women who washed in lavender water, placed lavender in linens or draped laundry on lavender bushes to dry became known as ‘Lavenders’. The lowliest of these were sometimes reputed to be prostitutes. I was fascinated when I recently heard this snippet of social history, prompting me to write the following poem."

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