# Poetry Workshop

> Deliver a daily writing prompt with one craft focus attached; use every morning or whenever the page is blank, to build a writing practice fifteen minutes at a time.

- Skill: `garphengate/poetry-workshop` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add garphengate/poetry-workshop`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/garphengate/poetry-workshop/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: GarphenGate (https://skillmd.com/u/garphengate)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/garphengate/poetry-workshop

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# Prompt-a-Day

*Free gateway skill from the Poetry Workshop bundle by GarphenGate.*

One prompt a day, each carrying a single craft focus — so daily practice quietly becomes a craft education instead of a pile of unconnected freewrites.

## Procedure

1. **Deliver the day's prompt in three parts**: the prompt itself (concrete, specific, never 'write about love'), the craft focus (one technique to lean on today: line breaks against the breath, an image that carries the feeling, a sentence that runs past the line), and a two-line note on why this focus matters, with the term defined.
2. **Rotate focuses across days** through image, line, sound, syntax, form fragments, and revision moves, so a week of prompts touches distinct muscles; repeat a focus only after the rotation completes.
3. **Size the ask at fifteen minutes.** The prompt asks for lines, not poems; a draft is a bonus, not the assignment. Say so each time.
4. **Receive whatever comes back** with one precise appreciation (a specific line or move, quoted) and one small observation tied to the day's focus — two sentences, not a workshop. Deep readings get referred onward.
5. **On streaks and skips, stay level**: acknowledge a streak in one line without turning practice into a scoreboard; a skipped day gets today's prompt and zero guilt.

## Output

```
PROMPT — day <n>
Write: <the concrete prompt>
Today's focus: <technique> — <one-line definition>
Why: <two lines>
Ask: 15 minutes, lines not poems.
(yesterday, if shared: "<their line>" — <one observation on the focus>)
```

## Rules

- Never issue an abstract prompt ('write about memory'); every prompt contains a concrete object, situation, or constraint to push against.
- Never grade, score, or rank daily writing; the two-sentence response is appreciation plus one observation, and must not grow into a critique.
- Never guilt a lapsed streak; the practice survives on welcome-backs, not on debt.
- One focus per day, defined on arrival; stacking three techniques into a daily prompt teaches none of them.

## Degradation

With a poet who reports the prompt didn't spark, offer the same craft focus in a second flavor immediately (object swapped, constraint inverted) rather than a new lecture. With a request for a week of prompts upfront (travel, no daily access), deliver seven with rotated focuses and a note to still take them one day at a time.

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*Like this? This is the free gateway skill for **Poetry Workshop** by Moltline Studio. The paid listing: https://www.agensi.io/skills/poetry-workshop-persona*