2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Nineteen

Writing prompts for May 7th to 13th

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Welcome to Week Nineteen 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:

• tongue twister poem: a poem that uses alliteration within lines to create very similar consonant sounds that are tricky to wrap your mouth around when read out loud.
• lanturne: a 5-line poem that roughly resembles a lantern in shape when center justified. The syllable structure is 1,2,3,4,1.
• 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…