2022 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Eleven
Prompts for March 12th to 18th
Welcome to Week Eleven of the 2022 Writing Prompt Journey! And Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all!
As always, 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).
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:
- limerick: a 5-line poem with an aabba rhyme scheme that usually tells a short, comedic story. The first two lines and last line are usually 8 or 9 syllables long, and the third and fourth lines are five or six syllables long. The meter within each line should look like this (where u stands for unstressed syllables, and S stands for stressed syllables):
Line 1: u S u u S u u S
Line 2: u S u u S u u S
Line 3: u S u u S
Line 4: u S u u S
Line 5: u S u u S u u S
- ekphrastic: a poem with no line or rhyme restrictions or rules, except the poem must be written about or in response to a piece of art that inspires you. This can be a painting (perhaps one of your own), a photograph, or even your child’s crayon drawing.
- tanka: a 5-line poem with the syllable structure 5/7/5/7/7
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.
- Tag your post with “Writing Prompt Journey”.
Prompt 1
Mountainous
For an extra challenge, try to work these two words or ideas into your poem: ancient | extrude
Prompt 2
Shaky
Challenge words/ideas: insecure | steadfast
Prompt 3
Pot of Gold
Challenge words/ideas: charmed | hapless
Remember to check out the Non-Fiction and Fiction Prompts for Week Eleven 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!
Chelsea Marie is a writer by night and 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 the easy way when a complicated route makes a much more interesting story? She’s on Instagram @c.the.storyteller writing and posting poetry in her spare time.
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