Poetry Challenge #136.5: Chuckle Challenge
Rewind to the kid who laughed 300 times a day, put on your silly hat and write a funny poem.
7 minutes
The 7-Minute Poetry Challenge
Poetry Prompts
Kelly Bennett and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than ten years ago. We have written a poem a day for more than 3700 days! Sometimes we use prompts from books or other websites, and sometimes we create our own.
The prompts below are ones that we have taken turns making over the years. Set your timer for seven minutes, and start writing!
Poetry Challenge #328: Into The Wilde
It's National Fruitcake Day, so write a nutty poem, inspired by Lady Jane Wilde.
7 minutes
Poetry Challenge #327: Idioma Can Be Catching
It's National Dot Your I's Day! Choose an idiom and write a poem that begins or ends with it.
7 minutes
Poetry Challenge #325: Heard it in a Song
Happy birthday, Jason Reynolds! Think of a song you really like, and let it inspire a poem of your own.
7 minutes
Poetry Challenge #324: But for a Wrinkle . . .
Use Madeleine L'Engle's ingredients (storm, stranger, wind, time, wrinkle) for a poem called It Was a Dark and Stormy Night.
7 minutes
Poetry Challenge #323: Zoom-Room
It's National Go For a Ride Day! Think of a car ride you went on, and write a poem describing the ride.
7 minutes
Poetry Challenge #322: Animal Within
Channel Marianne Moore: go light on rhyme and meter, heavy on imagery, and give your poem an animal name.
7 minutes
Poetry Challenge #321: Kuh-CHING!
Write a poem about money: why you like it or don't, how to make it, keep it or spend it. It won't cost you a cent!
7 minutes
Poetry Challenge #320: Playing the Game
Raise your hands for the Fall Classic: write a sports poem, about any sport you fancy or one you make up.
7 minutes
Poetry Prompt #145
Some days it’s just too darn hot. So hot you stick to every chair. So hot you can’t move.
7 minutes
Poetry Prompt #144
Boy howdy, where would we be without those garbage trucks to roll down the street gobbling up trash!
7 minutes
Poetry Prompt #142
Repetition can be used in poetry in many ways. You can repeat a sound like a long o sound or an l or t sound.
7 minutes
Poetry Prompt #140
Have you ever rescued a dog or do you know a rescue dog? The ones I know are wonderful—and lucky.
7 minutes
Poetry Prompt #138
One of the best things to do to make a poem better is to read your poem aloud.
7 minutes
Poetry Prompt #134
It’s National Zoo Lover’s Day. Imagine you’re an animal at the zoo. How would you describe the people looking at you?
7 minutes
Poetry Challenge #133
Because it’s what one does on April Fool’s day, let’s be epistolary pranksters!
7 minutes