Everyone needs a prompt now and then. I’ve collected good ones over the years that I’ll share on posts every Sunday — about 7 each week and maybe a quote for inspiration as well. I’ll keep them archived here, so if you can’t find one you like, you can scroll down through the kingdom of Prompts-Past. You’re sure to find something you can use.
Prompts: May 7-May 13
Witch
Rain
Catch up
Voyage
Jewelry box
Lamplight
Doll
And a little inspiration: “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” – T. S. Eliot
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Prompts: April 30- May 6
Portrait
Sunrise
Crazy in love
Ago
Dogwood
Out of breath
Water
And a little inspiration: “One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. . . give it, give it all, give it now.” – Annie Dillard
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Prompts: April 23-29
Grace
Madness
Linen
Chance
Blue
April
Train
And a little inspiration:
“Poetry addresses individuals in their most intimate, private, frightened and elated moments…because it comes closer than any other art form to addressing what cannot be said.” —W.S. Merwin
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Prompts: April 16-22
Spring
River
Silence
Protest
Danger
Forsythia
Bridge over Troubled Waters
And a little inspiration:
“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” – Lucille Clifton
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Prompts: April 9-15
Imaginary friend
Tomorrow
Saved by the bell
Midnight
First crush
Truth or dare
Leaving
And a little inspiration: “A writer is a world trapped in a person.” – Victor Hugo
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Prompts: April 2 – 8
Later
Real life
Bedtime
Doubt
Wonder
One more time
Yellow
And a little inspiration: “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” —W. H. Auden
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Prompts: March 26 – April 1
Enchanted
Did you know
Tempted
Haircut
Faded
Solitude
Beyond
And a little inspiration: “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour
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Prompts: March 19 – 25
Scent
The road not taken
What matters
Whisper
Unread
What was in the letter
The last time
And a little inspiration: “You must stay drunk on writing so that reality cannot destroy you.” – Ray Bradbury
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Prompts: March 12-18
Tricycle
Soon
Born in the USA
I should have said
Vision
Lock
In between
And a little inspiration: “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.” – Gustave Flaubert
