Happy Friday poets! How’s your momentum so far? Here’s a prompt for your third day of National Poetry Month.

Today’s Prompt

Write a poem in couplets that explores the concepts of Absence, Friendship, and Cosmos.

The parallels between the Absence and Friendship cards are spooky when side by side. How can your poem create or fill an absence? What narrative arcs suggest themselves to you? Don’t forget the cosmic background of the work! (But really, all friendships feel cosmic to me.)

Paintings and prompts:

Absence

https://artvee.com/dl/deux-figures-de-femmes-dont-une-inachevee-au-pied-dun-arbre/

Write about an absence whose presence you still feel.

Friendship

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/735939

Who know you down to your bones?

Cosmos

https://artvee.com/dl/disc-relief/

Write a poem that reaches towards the unknown.