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Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Three

Writing prompts for January 14th to 20th

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Welcome to Week Three 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:

• loop poem: a poem without length or syllable structure requirements. The last word of each line becomes the first word of the next. Generally follows an abcb rhyme scheme. See here for common variations and some great examples from Hellon, the creator of this form.
• 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!