2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY
Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Forty-Eight
Writing prompts for November 26th to December 2nd
Welcome to Week Forty-Eight of our 2023 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:
- tricubes: a mathematical poetic form created by Phillip Larrea. Three stanzas, three lines in each, and three syllables per line.
- monorhyme: a poem where the end rhyme is the same for every line.
- 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.
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
baking
For an extra challenge, try to work these two words or ideas into your poem: indulge | aromatic
Prompt 2
candlelight
Challenge words/ideas: flickering | atmospheric
Prompt 3
snowball
Challenge words/ideas: playful | competition
Remember to check out the Non-Fiction and Fiction Prompts for Week Forty-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!
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