POETRY PROMTS

Fran Lock

This is actually from a workshop series I’m currently teaching, and it brings me neatly back around to our early sexy metaphor chat, thinking about the way we reach for metaphor to create  wonderful impossible places/voices/bodies unavailable to us in the literal world as it is. There’s a sonnet by the Scottish poet Harry Josephine Giles composed entirely of self-contained single line metaphors, describing by creating, such an impossible voice:

https://booksfromscotland.com/2024/06/them-by-harry-josephine-giles/

My challenge for you is to create a poem using only self-contained metaphors, and use it to bring into being the impossible place, voice, body, idea or object you yearn to establish in the real.

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