The 7-Minute Poetry Challenge

Poetry Prompts

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Poetry Challenge #9

Write a letter to Santa. If you’ve been “nice” tell Santa why you deserve to be treated especially nice this holiday season.

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Poetry Challenge #8

How Many Haiku? Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry made up of 3 lines with 5/7/5 syllables on each line.

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Poetry Challenge #7

For today’s challenge, look around your space and pick out two completely different objects (or people).

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Poetry Challenge #5

What's That Noise? Take a walk—around your house, a store, the school, or your neighborhood. Write a poem about it.

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Poetry Challenge #4

Line 1 can have only 1 word today. Line 2 can have 2 words. Keep going in that pattern up to line 10.

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Poetry Challenge #3

Grab your pen or pencil and your notebook. Set the timer for 7 minutes and WRITE!!!

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Poetry Challenge #2

I remember the excitement of going back to school every year, both as a student and a teacher.

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Seven Minute Poetry Challenge

Five hundred and forty three days ago, my friend Kelly and I challenged each other to write a poem every day. 543 days!!!

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