Today’s prompt is just in time for Earth Day later this week.

Today’s Prompt

Write a gigan poem incorporating the cards Cultivate, Waterfall, and Labor.

The gigan is a form invented by the poet Ruth Ellen Kocher. It’s a contemporary form, so there isn’t a huge body of gigan poetry out there, but Kocher’s own poems are fantastic, such as gigan xi.

Let us know what you write!

Prompts and paintings:

Cultivate

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93433/for-to-be-a-farmer-s-boy

What parts of your heart are overgrown?

Waterfall

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13255/yoro-waterfall-in-mino-province-mino-no-kuni-yoro-no-taki-from-the-series-tour-of-the-waterfalls-in-various-provinces-shokoku-takimeguri

What choppy waters are you navigating?

Labor

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/94841/the-song-of-the-lark

What work do you wish you were doing?