POMprompt #2 Tell Me About Why you Write

but there’s a twist

Christina M. Ward
The POM
Published in
2 min readOct 23, 2019

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If you would like to participate in this POMprompt, here are the directives:

This is the second #POMprompt and I am very pleased with the response to the first prompt; Reveal. This prompt will be a little different as it is not based on a one-word prompt.

You may post your poem in any publication you choose. Please link to this article on your post so that others may participate.

The prompt:

With the new MPP changes many of us poets find ourselves standing on shaky ground. The uncertainly is palpable. Facing this redefining of the MPP paradigm has us asking ourselves what this means for the future of our poetry here on Medium.

Let’s take that a bit further. What does is mean for us as poets and writers? WHY do we write? Does the shift in payment affect how we view our own objectives or press us to write and “poet” differently?

For this prompt you will analyze your role, your purpose, your identity, your methods of writing…

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Christina M. Ward
The POM
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