✧ Writing Prompts 003 ✧
Poetry spells for oracles
These writing prompts are a way to engage writing with additional creative play. Use them as a portal, take a leap, and let something happen.
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A soft psalm for your inner night-writer. In this third installment of writing prompts, we return to the language of image, longing, and strange weather. Let these prompts be oracles. Use them to write poems that feel like secrets folded into silk and set under your pillow.
Write by candlelight. Write with feral grace. Let it be a spell.
✧ Prompt 1: Moss, candelabra, prism, first morning
Use these four words in a single poem. It can be gothic or gentle, feral, or fragile. Just let each word root itself in a different sensory register: sight, touch, place, and time. Who is speaking? Where is the candelabra? What does the first morning signify?
✧ Prompt 2: Mirror, mirror
Write a persona poem from the voice of your reflection. What does it know that you won’t admit? What does it see when you’re not looking?
✧ Prompt 3: False memories, real feelings
Write a poem built entirely from imagined memories. The can be an ordinary memory from your daily life or childhood moments that never happened but feel real. Want more ideas? A made-up lover. A house you’ve never lived in. A party that changed your life. Let it hurt a little.
Did you write with these prompts? If you feel moved to do so, share an excerpt of your work below or tag me on Substack.
Oooo, I'll definitely be playing around with these prompts. I love this! Thank you for the great ideas!