Here is today’s prompt:

Today’s Prompt

Write a persona poem exploring the concepts Costume, Heart, and Emperor.

NB: the text on the Persona Poem card is Very Wrong!!!! A persona poem is a poem written from the vantage of someone other than yourself.

Does the emperor have a new costume? What is the heart beating underneath it? Of course, all personas are costumes (in a way), so the pairing of this form and these cards is both obvious… and ripe for surprise.

Prompts and paintings:

Costume

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438819

Who are you when the performance is over?

Heart

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-heart-1930-karl-wiener.html

Get to the beating center of something.

Emperor

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/12791/equestrian-portrait-of-the-emperor-maximilian-i

Write a poem that topples an empire.