2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Three
Writing prompts for January 15th to 21st
Welcome to Week Three of our 2023 Writing Prompt Journey! Raise your hand if it’s still a little bit too chilly for your liking in your corner of this great wide world. It’s layering weather for sure for me, but that’s the perfect weather for bunkering down indoors with your muse and a handful of prompts to get your writing started! So grab a cup of your favorite beverage, settle into a comfy writing spot with this week’s prompts, and let your creativity off the leash for a good run!
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:
- 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.
- loop poem: a poem without length or syllable structure requirements. The last word of each line becomes…