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For a decade, Fifteen Minutes of Fiction had a weekly writing prompt. Some of these are specific to certain times of year, or specific holidays. They are presented here in no particular order; click the "Get Another" link to see another randomly selected prompt.National Poetry Writing Month: Riddle Poems
"Thirty white horses on a red hill/First they champ/Then they stamp/Then they stand still." This is an example of a riddle poem in which the poem is used to disguise the nature of the object described. In this case, the answer to the riddle is: teeth!Write your own riddle poem. First think of an answer, and then try to find a metaphorical way of disguising it in a poem.