Sometimes a poem comes at you like a fierce wind and sometimes, it whispers softly in your ear. But there are those times when we stare, wide-eyed and hopeless at the empty page. The words seem to have deserted us, ideas are off wandering without us, and we ache to write but the slate stays blank. I found, in my many years of conducting poetry workshops, that sometimes all that was needed, was a prompt, a place to begin, a door to walk through. So, I’m going to be offering prompts that I hope, like fall winds attacking a willow, will shake loose for you, ideas, images, poetry!
Poetry Prompts
- I write…
- Inspiration is…
- I seek the poem in…
- Words come to me as…
- Poems are…
- Poetry is…
- When words fail me, I…
- I seek the poem where…
- Beyond my mind words swirl like…
- The poem begins when…