Poetry Wales will be posting weekly/fortnightly prompts for its new competition Wales Poetry Award. Prompts are not mandatory nor required for submission, but intended as inspiration for new writing. Wales Poetry Award is open to international contemporary poetry and closes for submissions 28 November 2019. Click for more information.
Writing prompt #1: Write a poem that features another decade.
Nostalgia has been making the rounds in contemporary culture, from Stranger Things and Brexit to 90s crop tops and the disenfranchisement of the people as made popular in political regimes of the 30s. Write a poem that features another decade.
Example
another decade:
another old white man not
taking no for an answer
had he not understood the video
about the tea?