2022 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Eighteen

Prompts for April 30th to May 6th

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Welcome to Week Eighteen of the 2022 Writing Prompt Journey!

As always, 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).

Your poems may be in any form and use any poetic device, but here are a few different ideas of poetic forms to get you started:

• 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.
• diamante: a poem with seven lines that form a diamond shape, and deal with two opposite or similar subjects. The first line is the initial subject of your poem, the second line is two adjectives that describe the initial subject, and line three is three words that end with -ing (again, describing the initial subject). Line four starts with two descriptive words about the initial subject, but then ends with two words that describe the ending line’s subject, which is usually an antonym or synonym of the starting subject. Line five is three -ing words that describe the ending subject, line six is two adjectives that describe the ending subject, and line seven…