Actually not a bad way to get a poetry prompt | by Deborah Barchi | Medium

I can look at a picture from Unsplash and do a poem.

I have sinned, Henry

Sanjukt Saha

1 min readMay 18, 2020

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Actually not a bad way to get a poetry prompt!

Deborah Barchi

Written by Deborah Barchi

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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