2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Eighteen
Writing prompts for April 30th to May 6th
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3 min readApr 26, 2023
Welcome to Week Eighteen of our 2023 Writing Prompt Journey!
We have three new prompts awaiting you, and two words/concepts for each that you can try to include in your poems (if you crave a challenge).
Also, if any of these prompts fail to inspire, but the images take you in an entirely different direction, please feel free to follow where your muse leads!
Your poems may be in any form and use any poetic devices, but here are a few different ideas of poetic forms to get you started:
- clogyrnach: a Welsh poem with six lines and a syllable structure of 8/8/5/5/3/3. The poem also has an end-line rhyme scheme of aabbba.
- ballad: a poem that tells a story, written in quatrains (4-line stanzas), generally with alternating 8 and 6 syllable lines. The rhyme scheme is often abab.
- sonnet: (English/Shakespearean form) a 14-line poem with three quatrains and an ending couplet. The rhyme scheme pattern is abab cdcd efef gg. Each line is generally 10 syllables long and is written in iambic pentameter (alternating unstressed and stressed syllables throughout each line).
