2024 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Thirty-Eight
Writing prompts for September 15th to 21st
Welcome to Week Thirty-Eight 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:
- acrostic poem: choose a word (the subject of the poem) and write it vertically down the left side of the page. Every line must start with the corresponding letter at the left of the page.
- 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!
- blackout poem: a poem created from another written text. Generally, writers will take a black felt pen and block out 50% or more of the original written text to create a poem from the remaining words. As a best practice, I would recommend always providing a reference and link to the original text in your poem post.
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
jet ski
For an extra challenge, try to work these two words or ideas into your poem:
aquatic | athletic
Remember to check out the Non-Fiction and Fiction Prompts for Week Thirty-Eight 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!
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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
