Listed here are 100 prompts for promptly-written impromptu poetry.
Use these prompts for every day apply, for warm-ups, for mental occasion video games, or to pen last-minute valentines.
Decide to the entire 100 days; flex your dactyls and take pleasure in spondaic spontaneity.
Life is brief, artwork is lengthy lengthy brief.
Poetry Prompts
- A Shakespearean sonnet about music idea.
- Rotting roses, a tube cease, ecstasy.
- Flip a poem you’re keen on into its reverse.
- A triolet on rest room paper.
- Faux passport, dragons, intercourse.
- A dramatic monologue by a submarine captain.
- A sestina a few childhood vacation.
- Ink, blink, mink.
- A poem describing the final episode of your favorite TV collection.
- Your mock-epic morning routine.
- A haiku concerning the finish of the world.
- A rhyming couplet about {couples}.
- Love at third sight.
- Chilly espresso, a möbius strip, a religious expertise.
- A humorous poem about artwork.
- Recommendation out of your older self.
- “Larger and better every single day,”
- Write a discovered poem with phrases you may see from the place you’re sitting.
- Write a villanelle with A-rhyme “few” and B-rhyme “press”.
- Write a poem round your favorite proverb. For inspiration: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/243216
- Self-love, champagne, science.
- Write a macaronic poem utilizing false cognates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_cognate
- Ne plus extremely.
- 2 traces about your temper.
- Humble, tumble, fumble.
- Write a poem composed of punctuation marks. For inspiration: Updike’s “Love Sonnet”.
- An ode to giving in.
- Write a poem about probably the most unpoetic factor you may consider.
- Contact, a lot, clutch.
- “There is no such thing as a cash in poetry…”
- Rhyming resolutions.
- “There was a younger lady from Crewe…”
- Hitch, ditch, sew, itch.
- Write a poem consisting solely of direct speech.
- Your favorite poet, cut-up: http://www.languageisavirus.com/cutupmachine.html
- Inexperienced and gold.
- Flip a blues music right into a villanelle.
- Necklace, essence, ascribe.
- Ask, masks, activity.
- 2 traces of trochaic hexametre about feeling drained.
- Financial institution, thank, drank.
- “Upon the Russian frontier…” – Matthew Arnold.
- Write an eponymous poem.
- Write an ode to your favorite piece of clothes.
- Brown paper, irises, Guinevere.
- Write a poem about one thing you’ve by no means seen, heard, touched, tasted or smelled.
- A: none; B: trusted; C: brink; D: pair; E: rose; F: house; G: left.
- “Life and Thought have gone away…” – Tennyson.
- Write a contemporary alba. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_(poetry)
- Almond, allemande, à la mode.
- Embrace as many clichés & tropes as you may in a poem.
- Gown, chess, press.
- A ballad a few fashionable divorce.
- A poem titled, “Demise in January”.
- Knelt, svelte, felt.
- “That’s her book-shelf, this her mattress…”
- Adore, shore, Theodore.
- Rewrite your every day horoscope in trimetre.
- Invent a brand new poetic type and provides it your identify.
- Enthusiasm, miasma, simian.
- Enter, curiosity, tern.
- Tryst, mist, wrist, exist.
- Invent a phrase that rhymes with “love”. There aren’t almost sufficient…
- Conceal a love poem for somebody to discover.
- Write a poem “blasoning” your lover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blason
- “Roses are purple, or purple, or pink…”
- “I by no means stated I cherished you, John…”
- An ode to the loveheart.
- A poem from one well-known lover to one other.
- Write a discovered poem on the highway.
- Tangent, exigent, gigantic.
- A haiku a few missed rendezvous.
- An allegorical poem about rebirth.
- Foal, idiot, foul, foil.
- “The day we made the ultimate ascent.”
- Write a mnemonic poem to keep in mind the zodiac.
- An acrostic for the phrase BLANKET.
- Discover the phrase, “stamp”.
- Write a poem with a crayon.
- Write an ekphrastic poem describing your favorite work of structure.
- A prose-poem on the state of stream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
- A ceremonial poem to be initiated as a poet.
- Seize the best way the sunshine seems.
- Write a poem with an prolonged metaphor about electrical sockets.
- Write a haiku on a pebble.
- Peat, meet, sleet.
- A poem a few political occasion you care nothing about. *
- Write a dramatic monologue from the POV of a historic monarch.
- 2 traces of dactylic hexameter a few countenance.
- A poem within the type of an itinerary, planner, or almanac web page.
- A sonnet in your favorite cup or mug.
- Thief, honeymoon, gold paint.
- Try to convey the decision of a fowl you’re keen on.
- A poem about an individual who has been gardening, with out mentioning gardening.
- Would possibly, mitre, miner, mint.
- Compose a brand new rhyme to a kids’s sport.
- A limerick involving a shirt.
- Describe a meals you dislike in as a lot disgusting element as attainable.
- Discover one thing poetic within the historical past of a coin.
- A rhyming riddle to guess your favorite plant.
