Spool-Five

Today, we’d like to encourage you to take a look at @StampsBot, and become inspired by the wide, wonderful, and sometimes wacky world of postage stamps.

Today’s (optional) prompt asks you to write a poem of at least ten lines in which each line begins with the same word (e.g., “Because,” “Forget,” “Not,” “If”).

Finally, our optional prompt for the day asks you to play with rhyme.

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that plays with the idea of a “tall tale.”

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments.

Ezra Pound famously said that “poetry is news that stays news.”

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own ode celebrating an everyday object.

Finally, our (optional) prompt for the day takes its inspiration from Laura Foley’s poem “Year End.”

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem titled “Wish You Were Here” that takes its inspiration from the idea of a postcard.

Today’s we’d like to challenge you to write a poem rooted in “weird wisdom,” by which we mean something objectively odd that someone told you once, and that has stuck with you ever since.

Today we’d like you to start by taking a look at Alicia Ostriker’s poem, “The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog.”

Our (optional) prompt for the day challenges you to write a poem in which you take your title or some language/ideas from The Strangest Things in the World.

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a surreal prose poem.

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a platonic love poem.

Today’s prompt: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write – without consulting the book – a poem that recounts the plot, or some portion of the plot, of a novel that you remember having liked but that you haven’t read in a long time.

In response to Solerpunk’s 2024 OFFLine-FIRst SOftware CHallenge, I wrote a command line script for looking up flight ‘information’ offline.

Supermarket Chaos

tags #philosophy A note on some thoughts around ‘data’.

Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water In 1967, Roland Barthes published his influential essay “The Death of the Author”.

My website (spool-five.com) has now been online for three years.

tags #philosophy, #hermeneutics In a certain sense, the measure of hermeneutics is understanding.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

This is just a short post I’m leaving here for posterity.

Last but not least, here’s our daily prompt, optional and once more taken from our archives.

And now for our daily prompt (optional, as always).

Our (optional) prompt for day asks you to write a portrait poem that focuses on or plays with the meaning of the subject’s name.

tags #books Some alternative formulations of Chaos, taken from Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick

Last but not least, here’s our (optional) prompt for the day.

And now for our (optional) prompt, taken once more from our archives.

Finally, here’s our optional prompt for the day!

Today’s prompt (optional, as always, and taken from our archives) is a variation on a teaching exercise that the poet Anne Boyer uses with students studying the work of Emily Dickinson.

Last but not least, here’s today’s (optional) prompt.

And now for our (optional) prompt, once more taken from our archives!

And without further ado, here’s our daily (optional) prompt.

Finally, here’s our prompt for the day, once again taken from our archives and, as always, optional.

And now, for our daily (optional) prompt!

And now, without further ado, our optional daily prompt, once again pulled from our archives.

I decided not to go with today’s prompt.

Today, I challenge you to write a parody or satire based on a famous poem.

try writing a short poem (or a few, if you’re inspired) that follows the beats of a classic joke.

And now for another (optional) prompt from our archives.

And finally, our (optional) prompt for the day.

Today’s daily prompt (optional, as always) again comes from our archives.

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own sonnet.

And now for our daily (optional) prompt.

here’s our daily prompt (optional, as always).

Today’s (optional) prompt is again drawn from our archives, and builds off our daily resource.

Finally, here’s our (optional) prompt for the day.

And now here’s another prompt drawn from our archives – and, as usual, optional!