2024 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Twenty-Six

Writing prompts for June 23rd to 29th

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Welcome to Week Twenty-Six 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:

• diamante: a poem with seven lines that form a diamond shape, and deal with two opposite or similar subjects. The first line is the initial subject of your poem, the second line is two adjectives that describe the initial subject, and line three is three words that end with -ing (again, describing the initial subject). Line four starts with two descriptive words about the initial subject, but then ends with two words that describe the ending line’s subject, which is usually an antonym or synonym of the starting subject. Line five is three -ing words that describe the ending subject, line six is two adjectives that describe the ending subject, and line seven…