Scott's Poetry Prompts for National Poetry Month 2014
Happy National Poetry Month!
Are you trying to write poems this month? Looking for a few choice prompts?
I've been posting multiple prompts per day on my Twitter, but these are the 119 (about 17 per day avg.) I've posted as of 4/7/14 at 2:00 PM. Have at! (But don't steal my shit for your buster-ass workshops, yo. Credit where credit is due.)
(Note: If you print these out it's going to be 5 pages long.)
#poetryprompt Osamacare
#poetryprompt Trailer park of roses.
#poetryprompt Guilty displeasures.
#poetryprompt Frog and Toad are Friends with Benefits
#poetryprompt Pandora's DJ rig
#poetryprompt What Atlantis thinks of all your slave dumping
#poetryprompt Davy Jones' Foot Locker...for all your footwear needs
#poetryprompt Indian burial sound
#poetryprompt The Evel Knievel Memorial Expressway and Loop
#poetryprompt celldrone
#poetryprompt The Sweet Pickles bus blows a tire near Sesame Street.
#poetryprompt H.P. Lovecraft, sommelier
#poetryprompt The Abominable No-Man
#poetryprompt Yard sale in MIddle Earth
#poetryprompt An ekphrastic.. http://doctorlaughter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/483476_444983275563372_891914193_n.jpg …
#poetryprompt He threw his wife up the well.
#poetryprompt Stilettos hanging on a wire.
#poetryprompt The column you - AS YOURSELF - write for the monthly KKK newsletter. (Assuming you don't self-identify as a white supremacist)
#poetryprompt The house is larger on the inside than the outside. (Make it a love poem.)
#poetryprompt The angel said, "I can't tell you what Heaven's like. Never been."
#poetryprompt I want to meet your therapist.
#poetryprompt You try so hard to stand out that you don't realize you're standing outside alone.
#poetryprompt None of your advice works.
#poetryprompt The polygraph test is lying.
#poetryprompt The airplane's African-American box.
#poetryprompt What the lawn jockey thinks of the lawn gnome
#poetryprompt The lawn gnome graduates to gardens
#poetryprompt God speaks to Tyrone through a burning car
#poetryprompt The owl that asked "why"
#poetryprompt The women who wrist-slaps a neighbor's child at the community cookout
#poetryprompt The next extinction
#poetryprompt Westboro Baptist Church want ad: vacancy
#poetryprompt Paula Deen's Next Top Chef
#poetryprompt The one-legged pirate fears not your diabetes
#poetryprompt The black Victorians show up for tea.
#poetryprompt The text message you sent went through.
#poetryprompt Bob Ross paints not-so-happy trees. In fact, they're downright manic depressive. With a fan brush.
#poetryprompt If "The Outsiders" were black. (I know the temptation will be to list out differences. Just write the story, okay?)
#poetryprompt The Illustrated Man in 3D
#poetryprompt Your collarbone is all the weapon you need
#poetryprompt You have no idea, the women I've been turned down by before you.
#poetryprompt How your grandmother busted up your bracket.
#poetryprompt Addicted to your sadness
#poetryprompt Write about what doesn't come to mind.
#poetryprompt Why "Dark Tower" showed up when I did a search for "Freedom: The Underground Railroad board game."
#poetryprompt Clash of the Frighteneds
#poetryprompt The acceptance speech by the Grammy winner of the Liner Notes award.
#poetryprompt Why Jermaine shines like that.
#poetryprompt An ekphrastic exercise pic.twitter.com/TXIDg0XpUy
#poetryprompt Would "The Omen" in the hood even stand out?
#poetryprompt The Boy Scout merit badges that didn't pass muster
#poetryprompt The Arts Festival of the Damned
#poetryprompt Morpheus' kalimba
#poetryprompt I shouted love at the world and it cried back.......
#poetryprompt A nature special on the habits of missing airplane passengers
#poetryprompt Killed in inaction.
#poetryprompt The Ivy League shiv.
#poetryprompt The Periodic Chair of Elements
#poetryprompt How to haunt a ghost.
#poetryprompt An ekphrastic prompt... pic.twitter.com/ZApm1g6In9
#poetryprompt A misheard yet earnest song lyric (eg. "Excuse me while I kiss this guy")
#poetryprompt I've never heard a train over here before.
#poetryprompt Insert outrage here.
#poetryprompt Gangsta Lien.
#poetryprompt A chess master's post-game locker room interview.
#poetryprompt Playlist of the "Deliverance" banjo player
#poetryprompt Mamihlapinatapai = look shared between 2 people when both are wishing the other to do something that they both want but won't
#poetryprompt The 14 saints of barbecue
#poetryprompt The 7 Unnatural Wonders of the World
#poetryprompt What passes for miracles here
#poetryprompt What came before the moment described in your last poem.
#poetryprompt A reverse chronology of sagging pants
#poetryprompt My job in decoupage
#poetryprompt Dr. Heckle and Mr. Hyde
#poetryprompt The dead come back to life and see the one thing that would make them want to be dead again.
#poetryprompt Why National Poetry Month is longer than Black History Month.
#poetryprompt The one Dr. Kevorkian wouldn't do.
#poetryprompt Teaching a parakeet my poems
#poetryprompt A wolf in chic clothing.
#poetryprompt A game of tag in a cemetery
#poetryprompt What if, instead of taking the red or the blue pill, I just rub your magic 8-ball of a head?
#poetryprompt Two children play "Settlement" instead of "House."
#poetryprompt Nostradamus predicts all of my girlfriends.
#poetryprompt Beauty secrets of the Sphinx
#poetryprompt Seven times this morning...
#poetryprompt Man, the librarians in this town are serious.
#poetryprompt Here's an ekphrastic exercise. If you don't know what that is, google it. You're already online. pic.twitter.com/CGVKXfDkAJ
#poetryprompt Third eye contact lens
#poetryprompt The I.T. guy in Heaven
#poetryprompt A cabinet of only mildly interesting objects
#poetryprompt The bottle tree keeps the ghosts in, not out.
#poetryprompt Temple Grandin teaches Floridians how to better kill blacks
#poetryprompt Bilingual love-making (in English with Elvish/Klingon/etc.)
#poetryprompt The dog watching the cat kill things all day when you're not around.
#poetryprompt A closed letter to ____________.
#poetryprompt The Essential Kanye
#poetryprompt Strange Vegetable
#poetryprompt Chest Openings for Beginners
#poetryprompt I'm not drunk; this is a rum-induced fugue state.
#poetryprompt Micro-oppressions
#poetryprompt The first jheri curl speaks.
#poetryprompt Don't you EVER touch my stereo.
#poetryprompt Death's hellhounds are dachsunds.
#poetryprompt What's fat in the city is healthy to your country cousins.
#poetryprompt Breaking the fourth wall, only to discover...
#poetryprompt The Dowager reviews your record collection and finds it wanting.
#poetryprompt The Brothers Grind
#poetryprompt I'm a read that b*tch, except this time it really is a book.
#poetryprompt After the ability to read and write hieroglyphics was lost in 5 BCE two theories prevailed as to how the writing system worked
#poetryprompt If someone attacks you for not being compassionate, kill them.
#poetryprompt Soylent Black.
#poetryprompt Urban farm subsidies
#poetryprompt You need a Kickstarter for your life.
#poetryprompt Your horrorscope for the day.
#poetryprompt The same tree in every nature poem.
#poetryprompt The sommelier for your life.
#poetryprompt A commercial for the product Bill Hicks WOULD star in. Also: Tom Waits.
#poetryprompt Tenets of a religion based on a different class than science. Ergo, instead of Scientology try Bandtology or Woodshoptology
#poetryprompt Removing the mudslide from a local bar menu after the town got hit by a mudslide
Are you trying to write poems this month? Looking for a few choice prompts?
I've been posting multiple prompts per day on my Twitter, but these are the 119 (about 17 per day avg.) I've posted as of 4/7/14 at 2:00 PM. Have at! (But don't steal my shit for your buster-ass workshops, yo. Credit where credit is due.)
(Note: If you print these out it's going to be 5 pages long.)
#poetryprompt Osamacare
#poetryprompt Trailer park of roses.
#poetryprompt Guilty displeasures.
#poetryprompt Frog and Toad are Friends with Benefits
#poetryprompt Pandora's DJ rig
#poetryprompt What Atlantis thinks of all your slave dumping
#poetryprompt Davy Jones' Foot Locker...for all your footwear needs
#poetryprompt Indian burial sound
#poetryprompt The Evel Knievel Memorial Expressway and Loop
#poetryprompt celldrone
#poetryprompt The Sweet Pickles bus blows a tire near Sesame Street.
#poetryprompt H.P. Lovecraft, sommelier
#poetryprompt The Abominable No-Man
#poetryprompt Yard sale in MIddle Earth
#poetryprompt An ekphrastic.. http://doctorlaughter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/483476_444983275563372_891914193_n.jpg …
#poetryprompt He threw his wife up the well.
#poetryprompt Stilettos hanging on a wire.
#poetryprompt The column you - AS YOURSELF - write for the monthly KKK newsletter. (Assuming you don't self-identify as a white supremacist)
#poetryprompt The house is larger on the inside than the outside. (Make it a love poem.)
#poetryprompt The angel said, "I can't tell you what Heaven's like. Never been."
#poetryprompt I want to meet your therapist.
#poetryprompt You try so hard to stand out that you don't realize you're standing outside alone.
#poetryprompt None of your advice works.
#poetryprompt The polygraph test is lying.
#poetryprompt The airplane's African-American box.
#poetryprompt What the lawn jockey thinks of the lawn gnome
#poetryprompt The lawn gnome graduates to gardens
#poetryprompt God speaks to Tyrone through a burning car
#poetryprompt The owl that asked "why"
#poetryprompt The women who wrist-slaps a neighbor's child at the community cookout
#poetryprompt The next extinction
#poetryprompt Westboro Baptist Church want ad: vacancy
#poetryprompt Paula Deen's Next Top Chef
#poetryprompt The one-legged pirate fears not your diabetes
#poetryprompt The black Victorians show up for tea.
#poetryprompt The text message you sent went through.
#poetryprompt Bob Ross paints not-so-happy trees. In fact, they're downright manic depressive. With a fan brush.
#poetryprompt If "The Outsiders" were black. (I know the temptation will be to list out differences. Just write the story, okay?)
#poetryprompt The Illustrated Man in 3D
#poetryprompt Your collarbone is all the weapon you need
#poetryprompt You have no idea, the women I've been turned down by before you.
#poetryprompt How your grandmother busted up your bracket.
#poetryprompt Addicted to your sadness
#poetryprompt Write about what doesn't come to mind.
#poetryprompt Why "Dark Tower" showed up when I did a search for "Freedom: The Underground Railroad board game."
#poetryprompt Clash of the Frighteneds
#poetryprompt The acceptance speech by the Grammy winner of the Liner Notes award.
#poetryprompt Why Jermaine shines like that.
#poetryprompt An ekphrastic exercise pic.twitter.com/TXIDg0XpUy
#poetryprompt Would "The Omen" in the hood even stand out?
#poetryprompt The Boy Scout merit badges that didn't pass muster
#poetryprompt The Arts Festival of the Damned
#poetryprompt Morpheus' kalimba
#poetryprompt I shouted love at the world and it cried back.......
#poetryprompt A nature special on the habits of missing airplane passengers
#poetryprompt Killed in inaction.
#poetryprompt The Ivy League shiv.
#poetryprompt The Periodic Chair of Elements
#poetryprompt How to haunt a ghost.
#poetryprompt An ekphrastic prompt... pic.twitter.com/ZApm1g6In9
#poetryprompt A misheard yet earnest song lyric (eg. "Excuse me while I kiss this guy")
#poetryprompt I've never heard a train over here before.
#poetryprompt Insert outrage here.
#poetryprompt Gangsta Lien.
#poetryprompt A chess master's post-game locker room interview.
#poetryprompt Playlist of the "Deliverance" banjo player
#poetryprompt Mamihlapinatapai = look shared between 2 people when both are wishing the other to do something that they both want but won't
#poetryprompt The 14 saints of barbecue
#poetryprompt The 7 Unnatural Wonders of the World
#poetryprompt What passes for miracles here
#poetryprompt What came before the moment described in your last poem.
#poetryprompt A reverse chronology of sagging pants
#poetryprompt My job in decoupage
#poetryprompt Dr. Heckle and Mr. Hyde
#poetryprompt The dead come back to life and see the one thing that would make them want to be dead again.
#poetryprompt Why National Poetry Month is longer than Black History Month.
#poetryprompt The one Dr. Kevorkian wouldn't do.
#poetryprompt Teaching a parakeet my poems
#poetryprompt A wolf in chic clothing.
#poetryprompt A game of tag in a cemetery
#poetryprompt What if, instead of taking the red or the blue pill, I just rub your magic 8-ball of a head?
#poetryprompt Two children play "Settlement" instead of "House."
#poetryprompt Nostradamus predicts all of my girlfriends.
#poetryprompt Beauty secrets of the Sphinx
#poetryprompt Seven times this morning...
#poetryprompt Man, the librarians in this town are serious.
#poetryprompt Here's an ekphrastic exercise. If you don't know what that is, google it. You're already online. pic.twitter.com/CGVKXfDkAJ
#poetryprompt Third eye contact lens
#poetryprompt The I.T. guy in Heaven
#poetryprompt A cabinet of only mildly interesting objects
#poetryprompt The bottle tree keeps the ghosts in, not out.
#poetryprompt Temple Grandin teaches Floridians how to better kill blacks
#poetryprompt Bilingual love-making (in English with Elvish/Klingon/etc.)
#poetryprompt The dog watching the cat kill things all day when you're not around.
#poetryprompt A closed letter to ____________.
#poetryprompt The Essential Kanye
#poetryprompt Strange Vegetable
#poetryprompt Chest Openings for Beginners
#poetryprompt I'm not drunk; this is a rum-induced fugue state.
#poetryprompt Micro-oppressions
#poetryprompt The first jheri curl speaks.
#poetryprompt Don't you EVER touch my stereo.
#poetryprompt Death's hellhounds are dachsunds.
#poetryprompt What's fat in the city is healthy to your country cousins.
#poetryprompt Breaking the fourth wall, only to discover...
#poetryprompt The Dowager reviews your record collection and finds it wanting.
#poetryprompt The Brothers Grind
#poetryprompt I'm a read that b*tch, except this time it really is a book.
#poetryprompt After the ability to read and write hieroglyphics was lost in 5 BCE two theories prevailed as to how the writing system worked
#poetryprompt If someone attacks you for not being compassionate, kill them.
#poetryprompt Soylent Black.
#poetryprompt Urban farm subsidies
#poetryprompt You need a Kickstarter for your life.
#poetryprompt Your horrorscope for the day.
#poetryprompt The same tree in every nature poem.
#poetryprompt The sommelier for your life.
#poetryprompt A commercial for the product Bill Hicks WOULD star in. Also: Tom Waits.
#poetryprompt Tenets of a religion based on a different class than science. Ergo, instead of Scientology try Bandtology or Woodshoptology
#poetryprompt Removing the mudslide from a local bar menu after the town got hit by a mudslide