✧ Writing Prompts 005 ✧
Inspiration for the restless and the myth-makers
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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Hello. Sink your teeth into a new batch of prompts that feel like velvet dreams. So keep dreaming, and wake up clutching a poem called into existence from deep reverie.
This edition leans into the uncanny and the unspoken with a focus on the odd tenderness of memory, the body as myth, and the rituals we carry in our mouths. Use them for poetry, flash, journaling, spellwork. Just don’t be afraid to get a little strange.
✧ Prompt 1: copper, forget-me-not, cracked bowl, key
Write a poem in which an object holds a secret no one wants to find. Let your imagery be tactile with chipped texture, gleaming light, or rusting in the rain.
✧ Prompt 2: “It wasn’t a ghost. It was worse.”
Use this line anywhere in your poem. Think of it as an emotional haunting. Or, a memory that wears someone else’s coat.
✧ Prompt 3: thorns, ink, staircase, salt
Write a poem that begins with a lie. Then, tell the truth in the final line.
✧ Prompt 4: Write an elegy for something that didn’t die
Perhaps, it just changed. Or perhaps, it’s immortal. Think: a friendship, a version of yourself, a place that used to feel like home.
✧ Prompt 5: “Every time I tell the story, I leave something out.”
Build the foundation of the poem from what’s missing. Make the negative space ache. Let the absence say more than the confession.
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.