2022 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Thirty-Nine

Writing prompts for September 24th to 30th

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Welcome to Week Thirty-Nine of our 2022 Writing Prompt Journey!

As always, 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 device, but here are a few different ideas of poetic forms to get you started:

• haiku trio: a group of 3 haiku: 3-line poems with the syllable structure 5/7/5 which usually relate to nature. They generally focus on hyperfocused, short snapshots of time. In a trio of haiku, you can focus on three different items within that same short snapshot of time, look at the same item in different seasons, etc. Have fun with it!
• double-etheree: a poem that is 20 lines long, and the syllable count is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.
• ekphrastic: a poem with no line or rhyme restrictions or rules, except the poem must be written about or in response to a piece of art that…