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Poetry Prompts
I made sure I scheduled them before I moved so they wouldn’t be interrupted by the move, but it doesn’t seem like anyone’s getting much use out of them right now. Should I keep posting them?
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Promptly Quotable #007
Write a poem about
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Promptly Quotable #006
Write a poem about
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods.” — Lord Byron
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Promptly Lyrical #015
Write a poem about
“You were never free / and you never realized” — “And We Run” by Within Temptation
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Say It In Verse #028
If you could go anywhere in the world, do anything at all you wished, what would it be? Say it in verse.
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted directly in the comments or as a link to your own journal.
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Promptly Quotable #005
Write a poem about
“The difference between a flower and a weed is judgment.” — unknown
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Say It In Verse #027
What did you bite your tongue on today? What would you have said if you could? Why didn’t you say it? Say it in verse.
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted directly in the comments or as a link to your own journal.
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Promptly Quotable #004
Write a poem about
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” — James Russell Lowell
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Promptly Lyrical #014
Write a poem about
“All the toil / All in vain / Every image of ourselves that we create” — “Not to Us” by Nichole Nordeman
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Promptly Quotable #002
Write a poem about
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.” — Aeschylus
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Promptly Biblical #013
Write a poem about
“Wisdom hath builded her house” — Proverbs 9:1a
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Say It in Verse #026
Is there someone you haven’t spoken to or reached out to in a long time? If they were standing in front of you right now, what would you say? Say it in verse.
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted directly in the comments or as a link to your own journal.
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Promptly Lyrical #013
Write a poem about
“Help me make the most of freedom and of pleasure / Nothing ever lasts forever” — “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Lorde
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Promptly Quotable #001
Write a poem about
“He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.” — Persian Proverb
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Say It In Verse #024
If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would it be? Say it in verse.
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted directly in the comments or as a link to your own journal.
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Promptly Biblical #012
Write a poem about
“Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.” — Judges 9:14
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Say It In Verse #023
What was the most striking thing that happened to you today? What story would you tell if someone asked about your day? Say it in verse.
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted directly in the comments or as a link to your own journal.
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Promptly Lyrical #012
Write a poem about
All it takes is just one little spark, feel it, from me” — “50,000 Candles Burning” by Meredith Brooks
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Promptly Biblical #011
Write a poem about
“Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.” — Job 41:19
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted in the comments directly or linked to your own journal.
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Say It in Verse #022
What was one of your fondest childhood memories? Say it in verse.
Poems do not have to match the prompt exactly. Prompts are only meant to inspire and be a jumping off point for your own creativity.
Poems can be posted directly in the comments or as a link to your own journal.