2024 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Twenty-Four

Writing prompts for June 9th to 15th

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Welcome to Week Twenty-Four 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:

• etheree: a poem that is 10 lines, starting with a single syllable in the first line and adding one syllable per line until the final line is 10 syllables long.
• blackout poem: a poem created from another written text. Generally, writers will take a black felt pen and block out 50% or more of the original written text to create a poem from the remaining words. As a best practice, I would recommend always providing a reference and link to the original text in your poem post.
• tricubes: a mathematical poetic form created by Phillip Larrea. Three stanzas, three lines in each, and three syllables per line.