Sitting down to pen a poem can be intimidating because unless an idea has been burning away at you, it’s often hard to know what to write into a poem. That’s where having a prompt can help. Prompts help funnel your ideas and distill them down so that you can concentrate on the task at hand. Prompts can be followed to a T or used as an inspirational jumping off point — or anything in between. Writing generated by prompts can be used as a warm-up exercise or as the end product. So check out the following links and get your poetry on!

Links to CPL Poetry Prompts:

• Horoscope Poetry – 09/25/2018 by Kaecey McCormick
• Five “Warm-ups” as Poetry Prompts – 06/21/2018 by Kaecey McCormick
• Sonnenizio – 04/03/2018 by Kaecey McCormick
• Found Poetry – 12/27/2014 by Jennifer Swanton Brown

Links to Poetry Prompts on the Web:

• 50 Poetry Starters from LitBridge
• 30 Prompts from Little River Poetry Fest
• HerHeartPoetry’s Prompt Archive