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 Simply Snickers - Holy Week

Simply Snickers is taking two weeks off to celebrate Holy Week.

Please choose any previous poetry prompts from the Simply Snickers sidebar for your blogging posts - and come on back soon!

Watch for a new Simply Snickers poetry prompt after Easter.

Happy Easter! Happy Spring!

Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, March 28, 2010


 Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, March 28, 2010

Readers, poets and bloggers: Welcome to SIMPLY SNICKERS.

Self-Portrait with Sunflower
By Sir Anthony Van Dyke
circa 1633

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

gold
guest
guide

Use all of these words, or as many as you can, in your own original poem this week.

This week, we celebrate the birthday of Flemish painter Sir Anthony Van Dyke, who was born on March 22, 1599.

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

Above:
Portrait of Königin Henrietta Maria
By Sir Anthony Van Dyke
1633
Below:
Children of King Charles I
By Sir Anthony Van Dyke
1635



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, March 21, 2010


Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, March 21, 2010

Readers, poets and bloggers: Welcome to SIMPLY SNICKERS.

Clara the Rhinoceros
By Jean-Baptiste Oudry
1749

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

horn
hound
hours

Use all of these words, or as many as you can, in your own original poem this week.

This week, we celebrate the birthday of French Rococo painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry, who was born on March 17, 1686.

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

Above:
Misse and Luttine
By Jean-Baptiste Oudry
1729
Below:
Still Life with Fruit
By Jean-Baptiste Oudry
1721

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, March 14, 2010


 Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, March 14, 2010

Readers, poets and bloggers: Welcome to SIMPLY SNICKERS.

Inge by the Window
By Carl Holsoe
19th Century

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

read
reflect
regard

Use all of these words, or as many as you can, in your own original poem this week.

This week, we celebrate the birthday of Danish painter Carl Holsoe, who was born on March 12, 1863.

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

Interior with a Woman Reading
By Carl Holsoe
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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