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Next Read-Around is 10/2/25 at 5:00 PM PST

How It Works:

  1. Read the poem 

  2. Do your own reflection on it, noting what it inspires in you

  3. Feel free to use your own reflection as your prompt or…

  4. Use the selection of prompts below

  5. Pick one that inspires you and write (feel free to use only one or write several poems using different prompts) or…

  6. Don’t use any of the provided prompts and follow your inspiration from wherever it comes

My Thoughts

Due to travel and work, there will not be a read around for the next 3 weeks. The next prompt will go out on September 29 and the next read around will be on Thursday, October 2, 2025.

In the interim, I offer this little poem from Kyla Jamieson titled, I Need A Poem.

I Need A Poem

Can we talk about the moon
tonight? Low & full
in the baby-blue sky. A friend
at my door, the sound
of her laugh & well-loved
heart. I want to be held
up like that. I need a poem
about happiness I haven’t
written yet, an ode
to the ducks in my neighbors’
pool, another for the pink
magnolias of spring—some trees
make it look so easy: Yes
I can hold all this beauty up.

Kyla Jamieson
https://www.kylajamieson.com/selectedworks
Anonymous. Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons (p. 112). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Prompt Ideas

  1. Write about anything in the poem or in life that inspires you.