24 Poetry Prompts To Inspire You
24 Poetry prompts to inspire you
Are you looking for inspiration in your poetry writing process? I'm excited to offer you 24 opportunities to inject energy into your poetry.
I'll provide a guide with 24 poetry prompts. Each prompt gives you a short description, example poems, and a loose framework to start writing. Once you start writing, there's no wrong way to approach a prompt.
I've included below the 24 poetry prompts that you can use as a springboard to kickstart writing new poems.
Table of Contents of 24 Poetry Prompts To Inspire You
- Unreliable Narrator
- School
- I Wrote a Good Omelet
- Surrealism
- Make the Simple Profound
- A Single Journey
- Hair
- Reinvent the Overused
- Spoonerism
- Money
- Weird Laws
- Hygge
- Ghazal
- Epistle
- Setting as Character
- Pets
- Animals
- Weather
- Persona Poetry
- Prose Poetry
- Erasure
- Ekphrastic
- Food
- Ars Poetica
About Me
I'm a published author with two poetry chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections. Since 2020, Finishing Line Press published The Boy Born with a Pinhole Heart, The Pedestrian Press published Oakland, I'm Not Dead, Kelsay Books published The Cosmos is Alive, and Falkenberg Press published Still Human.
My poems have also appeared in such literary publications as Poetry Quarterly, New Millennium Writings, and the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day Series.
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Places I've Been Published
I've been honored to have my poetry appear in the following publications throughout the years:
