Mikeydred's End Of 2022 Poetry Challenge

Introduction

In the past, I have set up poetry challenges to stimulate my and others' creativity and thought I would first do this challenge as an article. As I will post this in the Vocal Poetry Community I probably don't have to write six hundred words, but I will do it for this article and include some poems from previous challenges I set as well as my poem listing my favourite Vocal Groups.

I suppose this is my own idea for a Vocal Challenge and prompt, although it is my own audience who delivers the prompts, though there is a Vocal Writing Prompts group as well here:

and other groups such as True Crime, Horror Story & Dark Poetry and Vocal+Assist drop in their own prompts from time to time and they can be quite stimulating and fun, and do get good responses.

I often speak to people who have writer's block or are not sure what to do next and these sorts of things are great for stimulating ideas in the minds of creators.

Also, part of this is hopefully to help me reach my Millenium of stories on Vocal before New Year's Eve in 2022, so I suppose it is a bit of self-interest for me, but I do like creating challenges for myself and prompts/challenges like this introduce a little random fun into the mix.

The Challenge

This is where you come into this and hopefully, you will check out and try the other creator's prompts. You can also look at the poems linked at the end of this article for ideas to write your own poetry or to throw back and challenge me.

This will be a series of short sonnets based on suggestions by Vocal friends. I will include a suitable video as well.

The challenge is “give me a subject and five words and I will try and create a sonnet”.

That is it, a subject and five words and then I will create a sonnet and hope you will join in with your own challenge criteria and those of others, then we can share and reciprocally read and comment on other entries.

The good thing about defining the format as a sonnet is that it does create a sort of quality control, and I find to form actually helps me to create my poem, concentrating on the content because I already have the framework defined.

Previous Challenge Creations

These are a few that I did in the past starting with a suggestion of my own:

A seasonal from Caroline Jane though the subheading mistakenly mentions Cathy Holmes, my bad:

A Christmas Suggestion from Zel Harrison

A snowy one from Julie Smith

One from Judey Kalchik

This is from Linda Rivenbark

From Karin Venables

From Rika Lekay

A Feline suggestion, unsurprisingly rom Cathy Holmes

Conclusion and My Favourite Vocal Groups

I do hope you will join in with this one way or another. Looking forward to seeing what we can do. Writing poetry can be both challenging and result in some amazing creations.

This is an attempt of mine to bring Vocal Creators together to create and reciprocate and share these works wherever we can.

By doing it as a Vocal Story and now with the commenting option prompts can be left in the Vocal Comments on this post as well as in the Facebook groups.

I thought I would include "Poetry In Motion" by Johnny Tillotson because we all want to keep things moving and keep them interesting as well, and that will keep people interested and bring new ones into the fold.

So come on drop some prompts and some poems of your own.