✧ Writing Prompts 009 ✧
In the cover of dark fire.
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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Oh, hello.
Some things linger and leave an impression on you. These instances can be sublime and lovely, profound, and even, terribly haunting.
We’ll start writing from there.
✧ Prompt 1: Vintage Haul
Begin your poem as a list. What does the speaker collect? Are they shopping in a foreign city? Or perhaps it’s all from the internet, a go-to brick and mortar shop in their neighborhood, a surreal and/or boutique. Play with this one.
✧ Prompt 2: Italian Summer
Write about a summer moment in Italy. Either the middle of the trip or the very end. As the getaway crests on, what ghost surfaces? What has been haunting the speaker beautifully or terribly?
✧ Prompt 3: Mirror of Mourning
Write a poem from the perspective of a cursed or haunted object. Like, a mirror. What does this voice sound like? How does this object function? Is it sentient? Is it haunted by a being? Or is it something residual? Imprinted long ago…
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.