✧ Writing Prompts 004 ✧

Star-drenched poetry prompts

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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Welcome back. This latest edition of poetry prompts is a soft, strange room. With these prompts, we can summon lines from shadows and sugar. Sweet yet mysterious, just how I like it. It makes for a poem that’s a little sensual and a little haunted.

As always, let them bend toward poetry, prose, or the divine mess of both. Write something that startles you into remembering you’re alive.

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✧ Prompt 1: Flame, midnight, house, window
Write a poem in which something rots. Use at least two of these images: a candle flame flickering in a window, a lover’s voice echoing in an old house, or midnight’s spell spilling like ink down the stairs.

✧ Prompt 2: “You may enter the house, but not the garden.”
A rule. A dare. A love poem disguised as a warning label. Let the architecture be lush and strange.

✧ Prompt 3: Red thread, moth wings, peach pit, map
Write a poem that begins with someone leaving a note. The rest of the poem should never reveal what the note says, only what the body feels after reading it.

✧ Prompt 4: Devotion as consumption
A mouth, a prayer, a hunger. This poem should feel like biting into something warm and forbidden. Let every line drip.

✧ Prompt 5: “I did not know I could survive this much beauty.”
Use this line to end your poem. Let it arrive like a confession or a benediction.

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