Welcome to day #1 of the 2025 Poem a Day challenge. Your interest, your support, and your encouragement for the project are deeply appreciated. Please enjoy and, as always, happy writing!
Skim entries from old journals and diaries from a year or more ago jotting down interesting words, lines, phrases, sentences or images as you do so.
Don’t overthink — if something jumps out to you, it’s meant to be captured. Resist reading for context and meandering down memory lane.
The goal is to compile a page (or more) of fragments that still resonate emotionally but resist nostalgia and thwart typical associations or your own predictable writing patterns.
After letting your page of fragments “cool,” return a day or so late and write a poem from your compilation.
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