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Sunday

Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, February 7, 2010


Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, February 7, 2010

Welcome to SIMPLY SNICKERS.


The Nearest Way in Summer-Time
By Thomas Creswick
1854

This week, our SIMPLY SNICKERS poetry prompt includes these key words:

request
rest (or wrest)
rocky

This week, we celebrate the birthday of British landscape painter Thomas Creswick, who was born on February 5, 1811.

To honor this artist, SIMPLY SNICKERS offers samples of this artist’s work to accompany this week’s prompt.


Above:
A Pedlar’s Visit
By Thomas Creswick
19th Century
Below:
The Old Mill
By Thomas Creswick
19th Century


Feel free to use the artwork in your own blog post, or not, as inspiration strikes you. Just be sure to come back to SIMPLY SNICKERS, and leave a comment with a link to your post, once you have published your poem on your own blog.

Please check out the other SIMPLY SNICKERS entries. What creative writer doesn’t appreciate encouraging comments?

Are you on the SIMPLY SNICKERS blogroll?
If you participate regularly,
and you would like to be added,
just leave a comment below to ask!

We also invite you to visit The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts. Try today’s prompt, or pick one from the archives. See what starts your creative engine – for poetry, prose, photography or other postings.

Bonus link hint:
On Sundays,
you may leave comments
(with links to your SIMPLY SNICKERS entries)
which issues a Sunday Invitation
to SIMPLY SNICKERS each week
and daily blogging prompts
throughout the week.

Love poetry? Click here to stop by at Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink. Click here to subscribe to an RSS feed for this writer's helpful Helium content. If you wish, click here for a free subscription to this author's online AC content, so you won't miss a single post!

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Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, January 31, 2010


Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, January 31, 2010

Welcome to SIMPLY SNICKERS.


Femme-Parisienne
By Kees van Dongen
1927

This week, our SIMPLY SNICKERS poetry prompt includes these key words:

wait
watch
willful

This week, we celebrate the birthday of Dutch Fauvist painter Kees van Dongen, who was born on January 26, 1877. (Kees van Dongen’s full name was Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen.)

To honor this artist, SIMPLY SNICKERS offers samples of this artist’s work to accompany this week’s prompt.


Above:
Meeting in the Woods
By Kees van Dongen
circa 1950
Below:
Au Beaux Temps de la Butte
By Kees van Dongen
20th Century


Feel free to use the artwork in your own blog post, or not, as inspiration strikes you. Just be sure to come back to SIMPLY SNICKERS, and leave a comment with a link to your post, once you have published your poem on your own blog.

Please check out the other SIMPLY SNICKERS entries. What creative writer doesn’t appreciate encouraging comments?

Are you on the SIMPLY SNICKERS blogroll?
If you participate regularly,
and you would like to be added,
just leave a comment below to ask!

We also invite you to visit The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts. Try today’s prompt, or pick one from the archives. See what starts your creative engine – for poetry, prose, photography or other postings.

Bonus link hint:
On Sundays,
you may leave comments
(with links to your SIMPLY SNICKERS entries)
which issues a Sunday Invitation
to SIMPLY SNICKERS each week
and daily blogging prompts
throughout the week.

Love poetry? Click here to stop by at Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink. Click here to subscribe to an RSS feed for this writer's helpful Helium content. If you wish, click here for a free subscription to this author's online AC content, so you won't miss a single post!

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Tuesday

Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, January 24, 2010


Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, January 24, 2010

Welcome to SIMPLY SNICKERS.

Portrait of Charles Trelawny, Esq.,
Master of the Dartmoor Hunt
By Sir Francis Grant
19th Century

This week, our SIMPLY SNICKERS poetry prompt includes these key words:

select
spot
snort

This week, we celebrate the birthday of Scottish painter and portrait artist Sir Francis Grant, who was born on January 18, 1803.

To honor this artist, SIMPLY SNICKERS offers samples of this artist’s work to accompany this week’s prompt.

Above:
Head of a Horse
By Sir Francis Grant
19th Century
Below:
The Council of the Royal Academy
Selecting Pictures for the Exhibition
By Sir Francis Grant
19th century


Feel free to use the artwork in your own blog post, or not, as inspiration strikes you. Just be sure to come back to SIMPLY SNICKERS, and leave a comment with a link to your post, once you have published your poem on your own blog.
 
Please check out the other SIMPLY SNICKERS entries. What creative writer doesn’t appreciate encouraging comments?

Are you on the SIMPLY SNICKERS blogroll?
If you participate regularly,
and you would like to be added,
just leave a comment below to ask!

We also invite you to visit The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts. Try today’s prompt, or pick one from the archives. See what starts your creative engine – for poetry, prose, photography or other postings.

Bonus link hint:
On Sundays,
you may leave comments
(with links to your SIMPLY SNICKERS entries)
which issues a Sunday Invitation
to SIMPLY SNICKERS each week
and daily blogging prompts
throughout the week.

Love poetry? Click here to stop by at Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink. Click here to subscribe to an RSS feed for this writer's helpful Helium content. If you wish, click here for a free subscription to this author's online AC content, so you won't miss a single post!

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Sunday

Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, January 17, 2010


Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, January 17, 2010

Welcome to SIMPLY SNICKERS.


Les Petits Tambours
By Pierre Edouard Frere
1858 and 1859

This week, our SIMPLY SNICKERS poetry prompt includes these key words:

taste
tend
trail

This week, we celebrate the birthday of French painter Pierre Edouard Frere, who was born on January 10, 1819.

To honor this artist, SIMPLY SNICKERS offers samples of this artist’s work to accompany this week’s prompt.


Above:
A Little Bit of Fun
By Pierre Edouard Frere
1860
Below:
The Young Cook
By Pierre Edouard Frere
19th Century



Feel free to use the artwork in your own blog post, or not, as inspiration strikes you. Just be sure to come back to SIMPLY SNICKERS, and leave a comment with a link to your post, once you have published your poem on your own blog.

Please check out the other SIMPLY SNICKERS entries. What creative writer doesn’t appreciate encouraging comments?

Are you on the SIMPLY SNICKERS blogroll?
If you participate regularly,
and you would like to be added,
just leave a comment below to ask!

We also invite you to visit The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts. Try today’s prompt, or pick one from the archives. See what starts your creative engine – for poetry, prose, photography or other postings.

Bonus link hint:
On Sundays,
you may leave comments
(with links to your SIMPLY SNICKERS entries)
which issues a Sunday Invitation
to SIMPLY SNICKERS each week
and daily blogging prompts
throughout the week.

Love poetry? Click here to stop by at Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink. Click here to subscribe to an RSS feed for this writer's helpful Helium content. If you wish, click here for a free subscription to this author's online AC content, so you won't miss a single post!

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Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, January 10, 2010


Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, January 10, 2010




Welcome to SIMPLY SNICKERS.


This week, our SIMPLY SNICKERS poetry prompt includes these key words:

linger
look
love

This week, we celebrate the birthday of American children’s book author and illustrator Joan Walsh Anglund, who was born on January 3, 1926.


To honor this artist, SIMPLY SNICKERS offers samples of this artist’s work to accompany this week’s prompt. Scattered throughout this blog entry, you will find various book covers from this artist and author.

Feel free to use the artwork in your own blog post, or not, as inspiration strikes you. Just be sure to come back to SIMPLY SNICKERS, and leave a comment with a link to your post, once you have published your poem on your own blog.


Please check out the other SIMPLY SNICKERS entries. What creative writer doesn’t appreciate encouraging comments?

Are you on the SIMPLY SNICKERS blogroll?
If you participate regularly,
and you would like to be added,
just leave a comment below to ask!


We also invite you to visit The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts. Try today’s prompt, or pick one from the archives. See what starts your creative engine – for poetry, prose, photography or other postings.

Bonus link hint:
On Sundays,
you may leave comments
(with links to your SIMPLY SNICKERS entries)
which issues a Sunday Invitation
to SIMPLY SNICKERS each week
and daily blogging prompts
throughout the week.


Love poetry? Click here to stop by at Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink. Click here to subscribe to an RSS feed for this writer's helpful Helium content. If you wish, click here for a free subscription to this author's online AC content, so you won't miss a single post!

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