April is National Poetry Month in the U.S. To celebrate, I’ll be posting a writing prompt from napowrimo.net here in Notes each morning in April. But in case you just a can’t wait to get started, they’ve provided and Early Bird Prompt for March 31:

Pick a word from the list below. Then write a poem titled either “A [your word]” or “The [your word]” in which you explore the meaning of the word, or some memory you have of it, as if you were writing an illustrative/alternative definition.

Cage

Ocean

Time

Cedar

Window

Sword

Flute