More poetry prompts

List of Poetry Prompts

• Write a poem about blue sand and red crabs.
  
• Write a poem about soup taste like happiness.
  
• Write a poem about someone sad. Use the words despair and summer.
  
• Write a poem about a woman who works at Barnes & Noble.
  
• Write a poem about a scientific wonder.
  
• There's probably Breaking News on CNN right now. Create a poem about it. But in yours make sure it is raining.
  
• Write a poem about tomorrow. Use the word toothpaste.
  
• Write a poem about Brad and his spectacular day.
  
• Write a poem about Instagram.
  
• Write a poem on the bus about a train.
  
• Write a rain poem.
  
• Write a poem about a man filing his taxes.
  
• Write a poem about a party.
  
• Write a poem about a lost dog that is found.
  
• Write a death poem. The Grim Reaper should make an appearance.
  
• Write a short poem about nothing.
  
• Flip to a random page in your journal. Use a word on that page in a poem.
  
• What song have you been listening to a lot lately? Use a word from it in a title of your next poem.
  
• Write an a poem about an apple.
  
• Use the words green, farm and tree in a poem.
  
• Write a romantic poem about a gift.
  
• Write a poem about Bing, Google and DuckDuckGo.
  
• Write a poem about a dare that backfires.
  
• Write a poem about how something smells.
  
• Write a haiku about poetry prompts.
  
• Write a poem about how watching that last horror movie made you feel.
  
• Write a poem about coffee and shoveling snow but don't use the words white, cold, frozen or hot.
  
• Write a poem about a girl who keeps stealing books from a used bookstore.
  
• Use these three words in a poem: love, grass and cat.
  
• Write a poem about the hungriest day of your life.
  
• Write a love poem without using the word love.
  
• Write a poem about frogs and vomit.
  
• Write a poem about caffeine and/or running when you are feeling really groggy.
  
• Write a short poem as fast as you can. Use the word blazing.
  
• Write a poem about betrayal and revenge. Make it intense.
  
• Write a poem about something bizarre that happens at a writing conference.
  
• Write a poem about another poet.
  
• Write a poem that includes a hat and the wind.
  
• Write a poem about a big dinosaur.
  
• Make someone you know doesn't like writing poems write a poem and then write a poem about it.
  
• Take three of your poems and mash them into a new poem.
  
• Write a poem about things that live in the swamp.