281. The halls are filled with notes and chords, the vibrations dancing softly across doors, walls, and hearts.
282. Use all of the following words in a poem: weakness, station, momentum, speak, last, restless, place, choose.
283. Write a poem about one of the four elements: earth, air, fire, or water.
284. Write a poem using the following image: someone sitting on the floor, alone, with a bottle of whisky.
285. A bell rings and children stream out of the schoolhouse, youthful energy unleashed like a thousand bolts of lightning.
286. Use all of the following words in a poem: hang, calling, broken, pine, patriotic, downhill, took.
287. Write a poem about a criminal.
288. Write a poem using the following image: the view outside a submarine port- hole.
289. Hips coil, shoulders shimmy. Tap your toes, and move across the floor.
290. Use all of the following words in a poem: trust, dead, pretty, buy, hurray, try, wrong, sleeve, done.
291. Write a poem about working hard.
292. Write a poem using the following image: a driver on the highway flipping off another driver.
293. The old crow swoops into the road—pay dirt! It’s a trampled snake. Round up to dine on the wire.
294. Use all of the following words in a poem: late, wise, vice, fill, nowhere, time.
295. Write a poem about language.
296. Write a poem using the following image: a picture of Earth taken from space.
297. They move like swans across the hardwood floor, spinning and leaping and toe-rising.
298. Use all of the following words in a poem: long, waste, handle, asleep, back, wide, decline.
299. Write a poem about something or someone that excites you.
300. Write a poem using the following image: a canvas, a palette, and a handful of paintbrushes.