Poetry Prompts for Winter
Poetry prompts and writing exercises are a great way to get a little creative writing done when creativity is elusive.
They’re also perfect for challenging yourself as a writer to incorporate new ideas and themes into your work.
You can use these on a day when you’re not feeling especially inspired or as a way to work on something a little different from your usual writing fare. Write a long poem, a short poem, a haiku, or a pantoum.
As long as you get the creative writing flowing and have fun with it, you’re doing it right!
These poetry prompts can be used for other types of writing too. Try using them in a short story, a blog post, or a bit of creative prose.
Poetry Prompts
Write a poem that contains all of the words in each list, including the title word. That’s it! Pretty simple, right?
Winter’s
burnt
spacious
metropolis
pacing
fiery
cannon
Snowy
green
loudly
tub
swims
sultry
sharp
Season
hilarious
elegantly
hips
fern
listless
twisting
Create Poetry Prompts
You can also create your own poetry prompts by flipping through the dictionary and selecting words at random. For the poetry prompt exercises on Writing Forward, I usually try to find words that have nothing to do with each other and I try to include a range of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to make the poetry writing just a little more challenging.
If you try these poetry prompts, feel free to share your poems in the comments. And keep on writing!
First time I’d come across one of these. I don’t usually write poetry, but I had a bit of a mental block at work this morning, and going through these helped me break through it.
Thanks!
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Adam, you just made my day. One of the reasons I post these prompts and other writing exercises is because over the years, they’ve helped me much the same way and my hope is that they will benefit writers and other creative people break through those blocks. It’s good to know they’re helping people
Glad I could be of assistance
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