2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Fifty-Two
Writing prompts for December 24th to 30th
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3 min readDec 20, 2023
Welcome to Week Fifty-Two 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:
- 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).
- elegy: a poem that does not require any particular rhymes or form. Elegies are poems that focus on loss or mourning. Elegies often try to come to some sense of peace or understanding of the loss by the end.
- abecedarian: a poem in which the entire alphabet is written down the left side of the page (A-Z, or Z-A if you’d…
