2024 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Forty
Writing prompts for September 29th to October 5th
Welcome to Week Forty of our 2024 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:
- loop poem: a poem without length or syllable structure requirements. The last word of each line becomes the first word of the next. Generally follows an abcb rhyme scheme. See here for common variations and some great examples from Hellon, the creator of this form.
- lanturne: a 5-line poem that roughly resembles a lantern in shape when center justified. The syllable structure is 1,2,3,4,1.
- magnetic poem: a poem created from random words and phrases, rearranged into a coherent piece. If you don’t have a magnetic poetry set, try using a random word generator and writing the words onto small scraps of paper. Rearrange these words until a poem is formed.
The simple rules for this Journey:
- Pick a prompt (or two or three!) and get writing.
- Post in our Publication, or post anywhere! Make sure to share a link in your post back to this Prompt post.
- Share a link to your prompted writing in the comments (or tag me in your post so I can find your writing to enjoy and share with others on this Journey).
- Tag your post with “Writing Prompt Journey” and “Poetry”.
Prompt 1
summer fling
For an extra challenge, try to work these two words or ideas into your poem:
passion | brevity
Remember to check out the Non-Fiction and Fiction Prompts for Week Forty for more inspiration. You can also go back to see the previous weeks’ prompts here.
And please don’t forget to post links to your prompted poetry in the comments, and link back to this post in your writing so more people can join the journey. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
If you’re enjoying my prompts, and want to help keep me caffeinated and energized… please feel free to buy me a coffee. Your support is so very much appreciated!
Chelsea Marie is a writer by night and a graphic designer by day. She is a West Coast Canadian with a bad case of wanderlust and a dream to travel the world with her severely airplane-phobic partner. Why do things the easy way when a complicated route makes a much more exciting story? Visit my other socials here: https://linktr.ee/c.the.storyteller
