2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Thirty-Eight

Writing prompts for September 17th to 23rd

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Welcome to Week Thirty-Eight 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:

• irregular ode: an ode poem with no particular structure, but instead simply places focus on poetically praising a person/object/event.
• clogyrnach: a Welsh poem with six lines and a syllable structure of 8/8/5/5/3/3. The poem also has an end-line rhyme scheme of aabbba.
• sedoka: a poem with two three-line stanzas (called katauta). Each katauta has a syllable count of 5/7/7, and they generally will look at the same subject from opposite viewpoints. Think of it almost as a conversation between two different people about the same topic. Sedoka traditionally does not rhyme.