Vera’s Little Piece

[theplottery]

20 ideas for poems

Feel like trying your hand out at poetry lately? Today’s your lucky day!

Here are 20 ideas to get you started. →

✍️ Short poems - What’s a thought you’ve had floating around your head lately? Phrase it in a poem - What’s a question you desperately want the answer to but don’t know? Ask it in your poem, then answer the from the heart with whatever image comes to mind. -  Take two abstract contrasting forces (like the moon and the sun, grief and joy, colors yellow and blue), personify them, and think of how they might relate to one another.

✍️ Story poems - What would a poem about an insomniac old man sound like? Why does he get up at midnight to wander the halls of an empty manor? - If death gave you one chance to go back and change one thing in your life - what would you go back to change? - There’s usually “the other woman”, but what about “the other man”? He’s involved with a person who’s married - tell us his story.

✍️ Motif poems - Use a red sweater as a motif to write a poem about. Whose was it? Why does it mean so much to you? What’s the memory you tie to it? What does it feel like, what is it made of? - What’s a flaw that you love about a person? Something that makes them who they are? Use it as a motif and explore visual imagery to compare it to. - Think about an old wristwatch. Who could it have belonged to? What sort of metaphors & allegories could you tie it into? What memory does it tell?

✍️ Long verse - Follow a person through the changing seasons of the year and how they change with them (or remain exactly the same?) - Read some news articles about real human tragedies, find one that speaks you, and write a poem about how you think a person might have gotten to this moment you read about - Write a poem about the journey between life and death - someone’s experience in passing - create a visual story that doesn’t tell us they’re about to pass until the end

✍️ Fairytale retelling - Write a poem about Rapunzel, but if it was a girl her age that climbed the tower instead of a man - Write a poem about a never-told backstory of your favorite fairy tale villain - What did Snow White dream about in her forever-slumber? - Write a poem about the witch in the Hansel & Gretel tale

✍️ Write from the heart - Explore the happiest memory of your life - Explore the saddest memory in your life - What was the moment you felt like you were reborn from something? Write that. - What is the thing you fear writing about the most? Write that.

I hope this is useful to any aspiring poets out there. I do recommend having a look at some poetry theory and structures, because these might help you write them.

[antlerwriting]

50 prompts to write and chill to

a collection of prompts I've used and hoarded for a while :')

Day three

Just died

Twenty-three

His wife

Sound imitation

An undelivered message

To be frank:

Deer

Tomorrow

Challenge

Pun

Burning it all

People who don’t exist

Shadow in hiding

I’ll decide in the car

Alone in a cathedral

Truth

Men cooking

Buttons

Car ride

Dawn

Growth/Decay

Is anyone listening?

Earthly pleasures!

The view from up here

Obsession

Chemical reaction

Hometown

Natural light

Parasitic

Heaven/Hell

Submerged in water

The city

Pink, like your brain

Euphoria

Bearing fruit

Grief

How did the sky look?

Tough to be a bug

Moon

Hands, wrists, teeth

Into the woods

Focus on the texture

Black hole

Extinction

Serpentine

Fight or flight

___ as a weapon

Monochrome

Dusk

[dawn-t0-dusk]

#43 I exist.

It’s humbling, To look around and see the world To exist as a one in a many billion.               All making our way,                              -stumbling and tumbling

I exist.               Yes.                              And so do you. So do the cicadas and fleas And the rats who feast on cheese From the biggest elephants to the smallest mice Every blade of grass,                              -and every grain of rice.

Isn’t it beautiful?                              -The world that is. In all its ordered chaos and mismatched pieces? We didn’t have to exist-                              and life didn’t have to bloom. But it did-               And surely this is enough to drive away the gloom.

[metamorphesque]

Emily Jungmin Yoon, "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today" from A Cruelty Special to Our Species. 

[schuylerpeck]

prompts for NAPOWRIMO, or national poetry writing month. follow along at @ hiitssky on instagram. :) 

[sleepyowlwrites]

writing prompts! descriptive phrases edition

written by me, hope to inspire

of dreams to dark to mention, of longing and of you

twilight burns my shadow down to dust

your rage quiets

I see your handprints on the couch

the dust of the seasons rest on my cheeks

those dreams sliced with scissors

you wear the sunset on your cheeks

can you swim through molten anguish

I saw your eyes in the depths but nothing else

her words are all bones and broken glass

pearls will line his casket, rubies at his feet

the glass that creaks is not an ambient sound of happenstance

I weave my hands through your hair like a noose

you were a train wreck and a torment

there are chills along our spines that we feel as phantom limbs

the burns along your ribs were not enough to recollect

your insistence is tugging at my feet

dreaming is pastime not a place

I swallowed clouds as I drowned

I never lied to you, I never was a wall

but for a kiss, I breathe, and you with me

give me your fingers to feel the tree on my cheeks

I plant myself in soaked soil

there are seams along my surfaces when you speak

unkept promises of what were always empty sheets

[sleepyowlwrites]

writing prompts! all about moon edition

I sure write about the moon a lot.

dance with me under the moon

there was a scarlet moon against a sapphire sky

a full moon like like a perfect pearl

I love how the moon kisses me goodnight

as the moon sits in the sky, so too the ones we love will never truly die

under the moon, in the companionship of lonely trees

the moon arises from beyond the hill

I'll send you goodnight kisses when I look up at the moon

I'm over the moon when you smile at me

as sure as the fickle moon we'll part ways again

after the moon has risen and the blue is fading fast

you are a golden afternoon, you are a shining full moon

the moon shows up to shine, you're still holding my hand

how did you lure in the moon

does the moon always laugh behind my back

the moon waned to a crescent so it could hold the sun's light when it dawned

the clouds won't part tonight, so again, the moon won't speak to me

pull the moon down, capture the sun, if you were hiding then you reveal yourself to everyone

no moon to speak of, the darkness enthralls

the moon is so big and golden but I can cover it with my hand

I strangled the moon with shadows

this song is light moonlight

I know I'll miss you in the moonlight but rather you just let me grieve

when I look up I see the moon stretching out like a reflection on the water

there is too much moon when there should be sun

[write-on-world]

[sleepyowlwrites]

writing prompts! all about night edition

hands are cold but feet unmoving, watching magic in the night

I didn’t mean to say it in my head and I didn’t mean to whisper it at night

it’s nearly night, frost creeping in on silent feet

it’s the song of night that draws me in

at night, when I’m alone, I look up and I can see the stars

a lantern far away glimmers and I can run away into the night

take me to a place in the middle of the night when the stars shine brighter as the sky turns slowly lighter

in the coolness of the night, send the shadows into flight

But as I’m walking forward, I’m walking into the night

in the heartland, where the night creeps in solemnly

you bought tomorrow and banished the night

if I ever think about you at night, if I whisper your name so soft

make a little more color in a lightened up night

and the night was upon us as the dark came creeping in, do you remember?

sometimes I dread the night, and feel so bitter

if the night can hold my hand and if the shadows are my friends I guess I’m alright

I can’t see the moon against the brightness of night

waiting for the light to untie night’s strings and the sky to come undone

the night was ebbing in and out like the sea

I am the power, I am the night

the past that haunts and fears that slide around in the back of my brain at night

like the closing of a story, the night rolls across the page

which is more lovely, the night or the day?

late night hurting, fever’s chill, I want a word, I need a will

let me stich your constellations onto the quilt of my night sky

[sleepyowlwrites]

writing prompts! descriptive phrases edition

written by me, hope to inspire

of dreams to dark to mention, of longing and of you

twilight burns my shadow down to dust

your rage quiets

I see your handprints on the couch

the dust of the seasons rest on my cheeks

those dreams sliced with scissors

you wear the sunset on your cheeks

can you swim through molten anguish

I saw your eyes in the depths but nothing else

her words are all bones and broken glass

pearls will line his casket, rubies at his feet

the glass that creaks is not an ambient sound of happenstance

I weave my hands through your hair like a noose

you were a train wreck and a torment

there are chills along our spines that we feel as phantom limbs

the burns along your ribs were not enough to recollect

your insistence is tugging at my feet

dreaming is pastime not a place

I swallowed clouds as I drowned

I never lied to you, I never was a wall

but for a kiss, I breathe, and you with me

give me your fingers to feel the tree on my cheeks

I plant myself in soaked soil

there are seams along my surfaces when you speak

unkept promises of what were always empty sheets

[ragewrites]

prompts? prompts. I’ve tailored this list with poetry and flashfiction in mind, but you can run with them however you like, visual art included. ^^ should you post a work inspired by any of these prompts, remember to index #merulia within the first five tags ! tumblr is a Very Functional Website, and I won’t see your work otherwise.

[schuylerpeck]

see my full NaPoWriMo 30/30 prompt list on instagram: @ hiitssky

[marlynnofmany]

Ever read something so striking and poetic that you want to create something to go with it, but you don’t know what?

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[feytouched]

questions for poets ✒️

which poets do you draw most stylistic inspiration from?

when did you start writing poetry?

share a line from a work in progress or a line that hasn't found its poem yet.

which stylistic devices show up recurrently in your writing?

what are the themes you most like to write about/that are most recurrent throughout your work?

what's something you'd like to write about, but haven't yet?

what are some of your favourite words?

name three poets you enjoy, and three you do not.

share a line from a poem (not your own) that inspires you.

how long does it take you to complete a poem? how do you know when to stop editing and call it done?

have you ever published your work? if not, would you like to?

where do you find your inspiration for writing?

how do you get out of a creative block?

share a line from a poem you're unsatisfied with.

do you prefer free or formal verse? (if the latter, what are your favourite forms?)

do you like to use experimental formatting?

do you prefer to capitalize and punctuate neatly, or do you do away with such conventions?

do you prefer rhymed or unrhymed verse?

how do you come up with titles for your poems?

what's the most important aspect of a poem, for you?

do you find it easy to share your poems with others?

what do you struggle the most with in your writing?

how do you write down your poems: on paper? on a notes app? on a text document?

share a line from your poem that people seem to love the most.

share a line from your favourite poem you've written.

[veraslittlepiece]

By November,

the gale has raked people off the streets,

and now only padded hooded monsters cruise them.

I’m packing my bags and moving back to my cave,

the outdoors having grown teeth ready to

bite any trooper overstaying their welcome.

What else to do, except mark time for

Great Mother to shine again.

[writing-challenges-and-prompts]

Writing Prompt: Poetry

"If you're going to rip my heart out

Don't be a coward

Use your fucking teeth!

No gentle words needed

Tear me apart completely,

Claws out, teeth bared-No mercy

Or let me kiss you

Blood stained maw and all"

[veraslittlepiece]