Introducing a New Monthly Series of Paul’s Poetry Playground Photo Poetry Prompts…

~ Paul Szlosek

Dear Readers, 

I am pleased to announce that today’s post is the first in a planned series of monthly photo prompts to help inspire you to write new poetry, flash fiction, or whatever you like to write. All the photos will come from my color photography blog “Paul’s Wonderful World of Color” @ https://thewonderfulworldofcolor77109243.wordpress.com which I hope you will check out (If you do, as an extra bonus, you may also find that each blog post’s title such as “A Study in Brown” or “Monkey Behind the Door” may provide additional inspiration for your writing. Also while visiting the site, if there is any way that you can like a post or subscribe to follow my blog, I would truly be grateful to you).

Hopefully at least one of these photos will inspire you to start writing some brand-new work based upon it. What you decide to do with the finished piece, of course, is totally up to you although we’d love for you to share it with us on your own blogs,. If you do decide to post it online or submit it to be published in a literary journal, you have my permission to include the photo as well as long as you agree to give me credit as the photographer.

And now here are your six photographic poetry prompts for this month:

Photo by Paul Szlosek
Photo by Paul Szlosek
Photo by Paul Szlosek
Photo by Paul Szlosek
Photo by Paul Szlosek
Photo by Paul Szlosek

Good luck, my friends! Hope these photos will help trigger your own poetic and literary muses, and you will be blessed with a bounty of new writing.

Thank you so much for reading! Please take care, and keep writing, and living the literary life!

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Paul Szlosek was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, but currently resides in the nearby metropolis of Worcester. He was co-founder and host of the long-running Poet’s Parlor poetry reading in Southbridge and Sturbridge, as well as a past recipient of the Jacob Knight Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in various local publications including the Worcester Review, Worcester Magazine, Sahara, Concrete Wolf, and Diner. He’s probably best known in the Worcester poetry community for his fanatical obsession with obscure poetry forms, and has invented his own including the ziggurat, the streetbeatina, and (most recently) the hodgenelle.

10 thoughts on “Introducing a New Monthly Series of Paul’s Poetry Playground Photo Poetry Prompts…”

    1. Thank you so much. I hope to post six new photos each month, but there is no deadline. You can take your time, and write about any photo that captures your fancy whenever you want.

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    1. My apologies, Carol Anne! It didn’t occur to me include descriptions for the photo, but if it will help, here they are for all six photos:

      1. A granite sculpture of a giant jack-in-the-box lying on its side on a cobblestone sidewalk.

      2. Two figures dressed in red repairing the roof of a brick building.

      3. A rustic wooden coffin in front of a tombstone carved with a skeletal bride and groom.

      4. A huge polished granite column lying on its side abandoned in the middle of a forest.

      5. A granite monument featuring a bronze statue of a german shepherd with the inscription “Dedicated to the Memory of the War Dog…”

      6. Two blue and silver phone booths side by side with working black pay phones.

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