2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Thirty-Two

Writing prompts for August 6th to 12th

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Welcome to Week Thirty-Two 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:

• senryu: a Japanese poem similar in form to the haiku with a 5/7/5 syllable structure. Unlike haiku, a senryu focuses on humanity and emotions rather than focusing on nature.
• tricubes: a mathematical poetic form created by Phillip Larrea. Three stanzas, three lines in each, and three syllables per line.
• elegy: a poem that does not require any particular rhymes or form. Elegies are poems that focus on loss or mourning. Elegies often try to come to some sense of peace or understanding of the loss by the end.