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Write a poem based on a photograph, whether it be one of yours or someone else’s.

Read Traci Brimhall’s “ How to Find the Underworld” and “ How I Learned to Walk” by Javier Zamora for examples.Ĩ. Try to ensure that the piece remains as tangible as possible, and to show, rather than telling. Here’s an Adroit Mentorship prompt! Write an instructional poem, either to yourself or to an unknown speaker, about how to do a certain action. Deborah Landau’s “ Solitaire” is a great example of how repetition can break or mold the form of a poem, while Jane Kenyon’s “ Otherwise” and Joanna Klink’s “ Some Feel Rain” propel the reader forward through the use of repetition.ħ.

Be careful of cliché or overused phrases, and try to push for more concrete imagery or expressions.Ħ. While listening to music, write down what you hear or “see” from the piece. Or, for a more specific prompt, read poet Michael McGriff’s article, “ The Image List,” wherein he asks students to list and develop images important to them.ĥ. Make a list poem, where you play on the use of repetition with a specific word or with a certain theme. Experiment with a form you’ve never tried before, such as a sonnet, a prose poem, or a sestina.Ĥ. Examples of source texts include using a dictionary, an online article, or even one of your own poems.ģ. Make an erasure poem, where you erase words from existing text and leave the result as the final poem. Take specific lines out of different poems (it can be yours, others, or a mismatch of both!) and see what you can create.Ģ.

Because of the juxtaposition of images and ideas that they form, centos can be ironic and humorous with their multiple meanings. Cento, which is Latin for “patchwork,” is a poetic form made up of lines from poems by other poets.

Writing poetry can be both exhilarating and frustrating, but whether you’re struggling to find your next set of words or just looking for a change of pace, here we’re sending a list of poetry prompts your way.ġ. As for many high schoolers, poetry saved me during a time when I didn’t know I needed to be saved, and those experiences propelled me to try writing some of my own.īut writing poems? Not easy. Like many students, I discovered poetry in my freshman year of high school–the kind that made my heart expand three times its limit, the kind that made me believe in humanity’s innate potential for growth amidst all the events going on in the world.