Poetry Prompts

Monday Poetry Prompt: Meteor

This week let’s write a meteor poem. The Perseid meteor shower is peaking about now so if you’re up past midnight and can find some dark cloudless sky, have a look and you’ll likely see one streak by. Of course, meteors are excellent metaphors for anything brief and brilliant though I’ve never liked the phrase … Continue reading →

August Visual Poetry Prompt

I came, I saw, I wrote poetry.

July Musical Prompt

Monday Poetry Prompt: City

This week let’s write a city poem. Write about the city you live in, the city you’re from or the city where you’d like to be. Or maybe why you don’t want to be in any cities. Post your place in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Each, Paper, Sense

This week let’s write a poem with the words each, paper and sense in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Ethereal

This week let’s write an ethereal poem, more in the highly refined, delicate sense than the heavenly, spiritual sense. Of course, one can be a metaphor for the other. Post your rarefied effort in the comments below.

July Visual Poetry Prompt

Are we having fun yet?

Monday Poetry Prompt: Island

This week let’s write an island poem. The poem can be set on an island, mention an island or use an island as a metaphor for something. No peninsulas! Post your insular poem in the comments below.