My National Writing Project friend, Deanna, has once again put forth a poetry-themed Advent calendar of prompts for poems in December. This is her sixth year (see all) of curating mentor poems on a theme, and then sharing out, and encouraging people to write poems. I seem to always come late to the party, but my aim is to use her 2025 Advent Of Joy collection each morning, to write poems, by borrowing a line from her poems and building off from there.
I caught up yesterday by blasting through a handful of poems. And then wrote a poem this morning, based on one by Langston Hughes.
Here is one from that first batch of poems that I liked:
Peace (and joy),
Kevin