2023 WRITING PROMPT JOURNEY

Poetry Writing Prompts — Week Forty-Six

Writing prompts for November 12th to 18th

Welcome to Week Forty-Six 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:

quatern: a 16-line poem made up of four four-line stanzas that are eight syllables each. This form uses repetition by creating a refrain of the first line of the first stanza and moving the refrain down a line in each successive stanza. By the final stanza, we end with the refrain in the very last line.
haiku: a short 3-line poem, with the syllable structure of 5/7/5. Haiku are generally about nature or the seasons.
double-etheree: a poem that is 20 lines long, and the syllable count is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.

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

pumpkin patch

For an extra challenge, try to work these two words or ideas into your poem: adventure | selection

Prompt 2

fireside

Challenge words/ideas: cozy | flickering

Prompt 3

thanksgiving parade

Challenge words/ideas: festivity | extravagance

Remember to check out the Non-Fiction and Fiction Prompts for Week Forty-Six 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!