2022 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Eleven
Prompts for March 12th to 18th
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3 min readMar 17, 2022
Welcome to Week Eleven of the 2022 Writing Prompt Journey! And Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all!
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:
- limerick: a 5-line poem with an aabba rhyme scheme that usually tells a short, comedic story. The first two lines and last line are usually 8 or 9 syllables long, and the third and fourth lines are five or six syllables long. The meter within each line should look like this (where u stands for unstressed syllables, and S stands for stressed syllables):
Line 1: u S u u S u u S
Line 2: u S u u S u u S
Line 3: u S u u S
Line 4: u S u u S
Line 5: u S u u S u u S
- ekphrastic: a poem with no line or rhyme restrictions or rules, except the poem must be written about or in response to a piece of art that…
