With the new year rapidly approaching, I’ve had resolutions in mind. As far as I can remember, I’ve never actually made a New Year’s resolution – but this year, I think, is as good a year as any to start.

Anyone heard of the 365 Challenge?

The concept is simple. Once a day, every day, you create a piece of art – be it a photo, a sketch, or a poem – for 365 days. So, starting on January 1st, I’m going to write a poem a day for a full year, and see what I end up with in the end. Not every one is going to be good – but putting pen to paper is the important part, and I’m sure I’ll end up with a few gems here and there.

To keep things interesting, I’ll be using a list of 365 themes to inspire my daily poem – I’m borrowing my list of themes from PoserFan on DeviantArt, who created the list for her own version of the 365 Challenge back in 2005. I’ll be including the list at the end of this post, and will be making regular updates tagged “365 Challenge” to keep you all posted on my progress – if you’d like to join me on this journey, please send me a message, and tag your own progress posts with 365 Challenge as well! It’d be great to have a few friends along for the ride.

 

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Abandoned

Academic

Acrobatics

Advent

Advertisement

All That I Have

Anger

Anniversary

Annoyance

Anthro

Amazon

Archery

Are You Challenging Me?

Assassin

Baby

Ballet

Bandaid

Bird

Birth

Beach

Blood

Blossom

Books

Break Away

Breaking the Rules

Breathe Again

Broken Pieces

Brother

Bugs

Bunny

Caffeine

Can You Hear Me?

Candy

Carnival

Castle

Cat

Chains

Chaos

Cherry

Chibi

Childhood

Circle

City

Clone

Cloud Seven

Cold

Clown

Confrontation

Contrast

Convention

Creation

Creative

Curiosity

Cursed

Cut

Dance

Danger Ahead

Dark

Day

Death

Deep in Thought

Defender

Desert

Dinosaur

Dirt

Disco

Discovery

Discrete

Distance

Do Not Disturb

Dragon

Dreams

Drenched

Dress

Drink

Drive

Drowning

Duel

Earth

East Meets West

Eccentric

Edgar Allen Poe

Eerie

Effort

Elegant

Elf

Easter

Enigma

Ethnic

Expectations

Eyes

Eygptian

Fairy

Fairy Tale

Fall

Family

Fan

Fantasia

Fashion

Fast

Fate

Father

Fear

Fiesta

Flag

Flowers

Fluff

Fly Me to the Moon

Follow

Food

Foreign

Fortitude

Freedom

Friendship

Frivolous

Frozen

Fruit

Frustrated

Fun

Future

Garden

Give Up

Geisha

Glass

Gold

Gone

Goodbye

Goth

Graffiti

Gray

Guardian

Guilt

Gun

Halloween

Happiness

Harmony

Hunter/Huntress

Heal

Hearts

Heaven

Hell

Hero

Hidden

Hold My Hand

Holiday

Hologram

Hope

Horror

Horse

Hug

Hullabaloo

I Can’t

Ice Cream

Idle

Illusion

Imagine

Impish

In the Storm

Innocence

Insanity

Insomnia

Internet

Introduction

Jewelry

Jokers

Journey

Joy

Kawaii

Keeping a Secret

Keyboard

Kick in the Head

King

Kiss

Lace

Ladybug

Last Hope

Laziness

Legend

Lies

Life

Light

Lips

Leaves

Loneliness

Lost

Love

Lullaby

Luminous

Lurking

Luxury

Magic

Manga

Manger

Marriage

Marshmallows

Mary Poppins

Mask

Melancholy

Memory

Mermaid

Midnight

Minus

Mirror

Mischief Managed

Misfortune

Mistakes

Misunderstanding

Monster

Moon

Mother

Mother Nature

Movie

Multitasking

Music

Mutation

Name

Nature

Need

Night

Ninja

No Time

No Way Out

Noble

Novel

Numbers

Obsession

Old

Orange

Out Cold

Outside

Pain

Path

Peace

Pen and Paper

Petals

Phoenix

Photo

Pie

Pink

Pirate

Playing the Melody

Pleasure

Plus

Poison

Pentecost

Portal

Prayer

Precious Treasure

Pride

Prince

Princess

Promises

Protect

Puppet

Puppy

Puzzle

Queen

Questioning

Rainbow

Rated

Reflection

Rejection

Relaxation

Reporter

Rollerblades

Road

Robot

Rock ‘n’ Roll

Rocket

Rose

Ruin

Run

Sacrifice

Sadness

Safety First

Sandwich

Scar

Sea

Secret

Seeing Red

Seeking Solace

Sentinel

Shadow

Shopping

Silence

Silhouette

Silver

Sister

Skull

Sleeping

Smile

Snow

Soap Opera

Solitude

Sorrow

Space

Sparkle

Spellcaster

Spiral

Splash

Sport

Standing Still

Stare

Stars

Starvation

Stop

Storm

Stripes

Stuck

Study

St. Patrick’s Day

Sun

Surprise

Sword

Tattoo

Teamwork

Tears

Tease

Test

Thanks

Through the Fire

Time

Touch

Tower

Traps

Travel

Treasure

Triangle

Tribe

Trouble Lurking

Trust

Truth

TV Show

Two Roads

Umbrella

Under the Rain

Underwater

Underwear

Underworld

Unicorn

Urban

Vacation

Valentine

Vampire

Vengeance

Venice

Venus

Voodoo

Vortex

Waiting

Wish

War

Warmth

Waves

Western

Wind

Wings

Wood

Words

Xmas

Young

Youth

Zodiac