The 7-Minute Poetry Challenge
Poetry Prompts
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Poetry Challenge #81
In a list poem, you can list things you like (animals, colors, makes of cars, playground games), signs of a season, tasks…
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Poetry Challenge #80
In honor of National Scribble Day celebrated every March 27th, scratch around for something colorful to write with: crayons…
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Poetry Challenge #76
Draw inspiration from the title, Thirsty Thursday, and write a poem about thirst using as many “th” words as you can throw…
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Poetry Challenge #75
Have you played a game where you’re given some letters and you have to see how many words you can make out of them?
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Poetry Challenge #74
Write a poem describing where you are from, your ancestors, roots, family, and or your own personal journey.
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Poetry Challenge #73
Contrapuntal is defined as two or more independent melodic lines in music.
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Poetry Challenge #72
Let’s celebrate in style. For today’s prompt, instead of taking 7 minutes to write a poem, let’s read poems aloud.
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Poetry Challenge #69
I’m writing this from the middle of a snowstorm. Heavy snow blankets the ground, outlines the trees, and continues to fall.
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Poetry Challenge #68
Did you sing Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve? The words for the song were written in 1788 by Robert Burns.
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Poetry Challenge #65
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in iambic pentameter. Each one was fourteen lines long with a specific rhyme pattern.
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Poetry Challenge #64
Dec. 5th is a Red Letter Day on my calendar. It’s National Bathtub Party Day!
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Poetry Challenge #63
Do you have a pile of books? I always have a stack that I want to read.
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Poetry Challenge #62
One layer of pumpkin, one spice cake, one pecan pie, frosted together with buttercream and topped with apple pie filling.
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Poetry Challenge #61
If you were of listening age in the seventies go directly to the theater to see Bohemian Rhapsody, the new biopic about…
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Poetry Challenge #60
Choose a long vowel sound (sounds like its name). Now write a poem where the last word in every line ends with that sound…
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