Past, Present, & Future
For December, we’re doing a triple threat theme! As Scrooge does in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, we are inviting you to visit your ghosts of (Christmas) Past, Present, and Future. The end of the year is the perfect time to reflect on where you are in your life, where you’ve been, and where you want to end up. Perhaps try doing so by writing (or submitting an old) poem about it this month.
We would love to see 2+ poems if you feel motivated to write about the same situation from different tense perspectives!
You may write any poem relating to ‘past’, ‘present’, or ‘future’, but we strongly encourage you to follow one of our prompts below.
PAST
PAST 1: submit an old poem from a period of your life that you never thought you’d get past (but did).
PAST 2: write a poem about an experience that brought you back to your past (this can be in hindsight or you can write from the perspective of your past self).
PRESENT
PRESENT 1: write a poem about something or someone that makes you feel present.
PRESENT 2: write about the best intangible present you’ve ever received.
SUBMIT!
Submissions due 1 December.
FUTURE
FUTURE 1: write a poem that is a snapshot of what you want in your future — however near or far you wish (tomorrow or ten years from now).
FUTURE 2: write a poem composed of questions for your future self.