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We’re halfway through National Poetry Month with 15 more prompts to go before April 30.

Here’s another to spur your imagination and provide a little motivation. All of the prompts offered this month are meant for inspiration, not rigid rule follwing, so if your writing veers off in unexpected directions, you owe it to your muse to follow.

Choose a location in your community that is considered ugly or an eyesore.

Spend time describing your chosen location in detail using vivid imagery and specific sensory features (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound). Include a metaphor or two to make it extra rich.

Once you have plenty of material and a vivid description, us it as the basis for a poem that conveys the location’s un-attractivenes then transforms it into something beautiful, meaningful, or admirable.

For inspiration, read “Ugliness Came Up” by Kitty Jospé, Zingara Poetry Review