Poetry Prompts

Monday Poetry Prompt: Blue

This week let’s write a blue poem. Roses are red, you know what to do.

September Visual Prompt

Horseshoe or “U”?

Monday Poetry Prompt: Abnormal

This week let’s write an abnormal poem. You could write about something that’s abnormal, irregular or even anomalous or your poem itself could be abnormal, maybe a sonnet with 13 lines or a haiku with 18 syllables. Whatever your misfit, post it in the comments below.

Monday Poetry Prompt: Study, Imagine, Again

This week let’s write a poem with the words study, imagine and again 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: 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.