NaPoWriMo Day 2: Habits, Prey, Lachrymose

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Good morning poets! Here's today's prompt:

Today’s Prompt

Write an epistolary poem incorporating the ideas of Habits, Prey, and Lachrymose. Do you have a habit of crying or of preying? Where do those habits converge? Or maybe habit is what holds you in times of grief.

However these ideas merge for you, write a letter to someone about those ideas—and make that letter a poem. 

Links to paintings and additional prompts:

Habits

https://artvee.com/dl/boy-biting-his-nails/

What patterns of behavior are you paying attention to?

Prey

https://artvee.com/dl/cat-watching-a-spider#00

What are you running from or chasing after?

Lachrymose

https://www.vincentvangogh.org/weeping-woman-seated-on-a-basket.jsp

Write a poem from the source of your grief—or your joy.

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