2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Fourteen
Writing prompts for April 2nd to 8th
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3 min readMar 29, 2023
Welcome to Week Fourteen 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:
- rhyming ballad (in trochaic octameter): a poem in the style of Edgar Allan Poe in The Raven. Don’t feel that you have to make your poem as long or tick all the same boxes, but The Raven contains eighteen stanzas of six lines each. Each line is eight “feet” long, or sixteen syllables of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. The end rhyme is ABCBBB. Good luck!
- senryu: a Japanese poem similar in form to the haiku with a 5/7/5 syllable structure. Unlike haiku, a senryu focuses on humanity and emotions rather than focusing on nature.
- lai: a poem with nine lines, and a rhyme structure of aabaabaab. The a-rhyme…
