2024 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Fourteen

Writing prompts for March 31st to April 6th

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Welcome to Week Fourteen 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:

• 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).
• stornello: a 3-line stanza comprised of 11 syllables each. The rhyme scheme for a stornello is generally aaa. Feel free to play around and use multiple stornelli together to form a longer poem.
• limerick: a 5-line poem with an aabba rhyme scheme that usually tells a short, comedic story. The first two lines and last line…