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Poetry Playground Writing Prompt #36

“An old, Tudor-like place.” (Anyone know which film I might be quoting?)

Jonny Masters
Poetry Playground
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4 min readAug 26, 2024

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Old Tudor building
Slightly blurry picture (my phone isn’t happy at the moment) of Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire, UK. Photo by Author.

It is time for another Poetry Playground Prompt!

Last week’s prompt led to lots of brilliant poetry. There were some unexpected ones!

This Week’s Prompt

My husband and I visited Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire today. Built in the early 1500s, it has stood for 500 years. That is an impressive achievement!

This week, the picture above is the prompt. Use the image to inspire a poem — perhaps something historical, or a romantic love story told from the perspective of someone looking out from the house to the garden. Or maybe you want to focus on the geometry of the garden and write a poem about shapes. Use the image as loosely or closely as you wish.

If you want an added challenge, you can write a sonnet, as Shakespeare might have visited Little Moreton Hall (very unlikely, but possible).

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Jonny Masters
Poetry Playground

Gay Christian. Editor of Poetry Playground, Inclusive Christianity, Prism & Pen. I write a daily drabble with themes such as pets, tourism, humour and politics.