Apparently what makes me write more poetry is:
(1) being unfocused in a lecture
(2) reading something that really inspires me and gives me immediate ideas
(3) staying up unreasonably long (inspiration tends to strike after 12)
(4) being really emotional / sad / angry (or happy I guess?)
(5) drinking too much green tea
(6) being put under pressure to write (e.g. by my mother)

I've had too much green tea again so who knows, maybe I'll be writing more soon...
Plus, my parents are going to make some booklets of my poetry again (this time only the Women of the Bible ones), so by the end of the week I need to send them all I've got - and I'd like to have as much as possible.
So now you know why I cranked out three poems right after each other this weekend... (Salome, Herodias and Leah)

Possible candidates for upcoming poetry:
Ahinoam (Saul's wife) because for some reason she's been on my mind despite not being on my list... (I'll just have to add her - that makes 119!) This past semester we had a class on King David, which includes the story of Saul, and Saul is such a tragic character it would be interesting to consider what his wife thought. Saul always makes me think about topics like whether one can ever be rejected by God (Saul was!), and the importance of repentance / confessing sins, and how we humans sometimes can block off salvation from ourselves by our wrong choices. That kind of thing. Saul is a really interesting character. ^^

Zelophhad's daughters because I read their story recently - though I don't really have a good idea for them yet. It might be smarter to wait till I actually get an idea... "forcing" one has worked before, but poetry is always more powerful when you let it come in its own time (at least I think so)

Priscilla (Acts) because I had a vague idea about what direction her poem could take. She was one of Paul's co-workers. ^^

Maybe I need to start thinking about which woman of the Bible is my "favourite" or inspires me most or makes me think most - since I started a challenge in my group #Women-of-God to that theme. And if I don't participate I doubt I can expect anyone else to... You could though if you feel like it! Info's here: [link]
I don't really know who's my fav, though. I think with the Bible it always changes a bit, because the Bible is so "alive" and can say something in every life situation. There are times when one Bible text is really important to me, or one person really inspires me (e.g. Peter three years ago). Then other times another text, verse or story sort of "follows" me.

Actually even the "nasty" women can be inspiring... like, in the opposite direction - in the sense of inspiring me to not act like they do. The "nasty" women can teach us just as much as the "good" ones. Not to mention no one's really good...

Ever since challenging myself to write a poem for every woman in the Bible I have been learning A LOT. Which is why I can only recommend doing something like that. Because you look at their stories in a new way, not to mention look at some stories for the first time because they are so little-known or hidden or only in two verses. It has made me think a lot about God and salvation, and also about people, about our (sometimes wrong) ways to handle situations, about motives and the lies we tell ourselves sometimes, and also what it means to be a woman.

_{And actually I should be studying... I suspect green tea does NOT help me study but turns me into a multitasking distracted scatterbrain instead...}