2024 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Eight
Writing prompts for February 18th to 24th
Welcome to Week Eight 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:
- acrostic poem: choose a word (the subject of the poem) and write it vertically down the left side of the page. Every line must start with the corresponding letter at the left of the page.
- stornello: a 3-line stanza comprised of 11 syllables each. The rhyme scheme for a stornello is generally aaa. Feel free to play around and use multiple stornelli together to form a longer poem.
- sonnet: (English/Shakespearean form) a 14-line poem with three quatrains and an ending couplet. The rhyme scheme pattern is abab cdcd efef gg. Each line is generally 10 syllables long and is written in iambic pentameter (alternating unstressed and stressed syllables throughout each line).
The simple rules for this Journey:
- Pick a prompt (or two or three!) and get writing.
- Post in our Publication, or post anywhere! Make sure to share a link in your post back to this Prompt post.
- Share a link to your prompted writing in the comments (or tag me in your post so I can find your writing to enjoy and share with others on this Journey).
- Tag your post with “Writing Prompt Journey” and “Poetry”.
Prompt 1
tesseract
For an extra challenge, try to work these two words or ideas into your poem: mystical | warp
Prompt 2
nebula
Challenge words/ideas: heavenly | astronomical
Prompt 3
eccentricity
Challenge words/ideas: conventional | quirky
Remember to check out the Non-Fiction and Fiction Prompts for Week Eight for more inspiration. You can also go back to see the previous weeks’ prompts here.
And please don’t forget to post links to your prompted poetry in the comments, and link back to this post in your writing so more people can join the journey. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
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Chelsea Marie is a writer by night and a graphic designer by day. She is a West Coast Canadian with a bad case of wanderlust and a dream to travel the world with her severely airplane-phobic partner. Why do things the easy way when a complicated route makes a much more exciting story? Visit my other socials here: https://linktr.ee/c.the.storyteller