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Hi fam We are excited to announce an important update to our platform. We have rebranded from Todayinpoetry.com to Penaiku.com. At fist, TodayInPoetry.com was meant to be a magazine-style website showcasing poetry from writers around the world. However, one thing led to another then a social platf...Read more

HAPPY 2026 🎆 May the new year bring you endless joy and success. What are your new year plans? Do you have a list of resolutions? Shall we write a poem titled 'Resolutions for 2026'? If you write, tag us with #resolution What's one resolution you've made for the new year? Tell us in the feed...Read more

Greetings family! You have learnt about Haiku in the previous prompts and now it's time to get you acquainted with the Haibun poetic form. What is a Haibun? A haibun is composed of two stanzas. The first stanza is a prose paragraph, and the second stanza is a haiku. For example: *In that chilly...Read more

Good morning 🌞 Have you every heard of the six word story? Basically, the six word story is where you compose a meaningful complete narrative condensed into exactly six words. Look at this example "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." —Ernest Hemingway Here's what is fun 😄 For today's daily...Read more

Read the following four line poem written by Langston Hughes. Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly -Langston Hughes For today's writing challenge, we want you to compose a four line poem with the word "dreams" in it. Tag your piece with #dream...Read more

Christmas greetings to y'all ⛄ 🎁 Keeping the tradition of Christmas alive, we bring you a Christmas themed prompt piece to keep the writing spirits up. For today's challenge, Write a letter to Santa from the POV of a person who has grown up: someone who has stopped believing in gifts. Please ...Read more

Howdy 🤠 Here's something interesting. Please read the definition below: ODE An ode is a lyrical poem, often serious and formal, that praises or glorifies a specific person, object, event, or idea, originating in Ancient Greece as sung or recited performances. Now read this poem titled, 'Ode to ...Read more

What's cooking family! Here's a fun prompt for y'all. For today's challenge, describe a color. It can be any color according to your preference. Use that color and compose a piece of poem or prose. Remember to make it poetic. Poem piece must not exceed more than 12 lines. Prose piece must be wr...Read more

Hello ! Read this definition of a list poem from Poetry Foundation. "A list poem (also known as a catalog poem) is a poem that lists things, whether names, places, actions, thoughts, images, etc.” For better comprehension, read an example of this poem titled, WHY WE OPPOSE POCKETS FOR WOMEN writt...Read more

Season greetings from the TIP team ❄️🥶 Today's prompt of the day is to write a rhyming haiku. Below is an example you can cite for inspiration —Rainbow here to long In a winter frosty song White in gray still strong— A haiku is a traditional Japanese poetic form, typically three unrhymed lines...Read more

What My House Would Be Like If It Were A Person by Denise Levertov This person would be an animal. This animal would be large, at least as large as a workhorse. It would chew cud, like cows, having several stomachs. No one could follow it into the dense brush to witness its mating habits. Hid...Read more

An Introduction by Kamala Das ...I am Indian, very brown, born in Malabar, I speak three languages, write in two, dream in one. Don't write in English, they said, English is not your mother-tongue. Why not leave me alone, critics, friends, visiting cousins, Every one of you? Why not let me...Read more

Abundance (In memory of Mary Oliver) by Amy Schmidt It’s impossible to be lonely when you’re zesting an orange. Scrape the soft rind once and the whole room fills with fruit. Look around: you have more than enough. Always have. You just didn’t notice until now. Happy Diwali TIP family and esp...Read more

Passage by Victoria Chang Every leaf that falls never stops falling. I once thought that leaves were leaves. Now I think they are feeling, in search of a place— someone's hair, a park bench, a finger. Isn't that like us, going from place to place, looking to be alive? Read the above poem and t...Read more