2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Two
Writing prompts for January 8th to 14th
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3 min readJan 6, 2023
Welcome to Week Two of our 2023 Writing Prompt Journey! Now, what are you waiting for? Let’s get writing!
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:
- clogyrnach: a Welsh poem with six lines and a syllable structure of 8/8/5/5/3/3. The poem also has an end-line rhyme scheme of aabbba.
- haiku: a short 3-line poem, with a syllable structure of 5/7/5. Haiku are generally about nature or the seasons.
- free verse poem: let your creativity run wild, with no specific syllable count or line quantity needed. There is no rhyme scheme required, but you may include rhymes if you like (anything goes)!
The simple rules for this Journey:
- Pick a prompt (or two or three!) and get writing.
