381. Stand still at the edge of the dock and look out at the gray waves—how they rise and fall. The water, it speaks to you.
382. Use all of the following words in a poem: jelly, pepper, cream, morning, never, reason.
383. Write a poem about a movie theater.
384. Write a poem using the following image: a house with a picket fence and a tire swing hanging from a tree in the front yard.
385. That summer, everybody was listening to that song. It was playing everywhere.
386. Use all of the following words in a poem: cause, tower, dusk, precipice, breathing, travels, rock slide.
387. Write a poem about animals in the wild whose habitats are being destroyed or endangered by humans.
388. Write a poem using the following image: a soup kitchen on the night of a major holiday.
389. The years keep turning over, and we just keep spinning around and around.
390. Use all of the following words in a poem: primitive, burning, miracle, back- ward, hypnotize, rules, promises, desecrate.
391. Write a poem about a dark, scary place.
392. Write a poem using the following image: a book with a worn cover and dog- eared pages.
393. Have you ever walked through a garden at night? What about a forest?
394. Use all of the following words in a poem: educated, churning, blackbirds, trickle, real, coals, sorry.
395. Write a poem about loneliness.
396. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an island of garbage floating in the middle of the ocean. Write a poem about it.
397. Every tooth, every discarded shoe, every grass-stained elbow tells a story.
398. Use all of the following words in a poem: behind, waiting, snakes, engaged, overflow, nation, set.
399. Write a poem about a long journey.
400. Write a poem using the following image: someone standing in a doorway, soaking wet, with rain pouring in the background.