Poetry Prompts

 November Poetry Prompts

  1. The wind carries a secret — What does it whisper?
  2. A letter from autumn to winter
  3. The last leaf’s monologue
  4. If silence had a color
  5. A poem that begins with a sigh
  6. The scent of memory
  7. A conversation between two shadows
  8. The moon’s jealous love
  9. A recipe for loneliness
  10. The sound of a forgotten name
  11. A cactus dreams of rain
  12. The ghost in the mirror
  13. A poem written in footprints
  14. The sky’s apology
  15. A map to nowhere
  16. The taste of regret
  17. A poem that ends mid-sentence
  18. The library of lost thoughts
  19. A bird that sings in reverse
  20. The color of waiting
  21. A poem shaped like a question
  22. The echo of a promise
  23. A door that only opens at dusk
  24. The stars are listening
  25. A poem written in candlelight
  26. The ache of almost
  27. A lullaby for the restless
  28. The horizon’s secret
  29. A poem with no nouns
  30. November writes its own ending

Emily Dickinson–Inspired November Prompts

  1. A soul in a bonnet of frost
  2. The bee forgot the bloom
  3. I heard a hush in Heaven
  4. A letter never sent—but felt
  5. The grass confesses nothing
  6. A funeral in the mind
  7. Hope wore a threadbare shawl
  8. The robin’s hymn at dusk
  9. A door that opens inward
  10. The hush between two heartbeats
  11. A feather floats through eternity
  12. The sun declines politely
  13. A thought that trembles
  14. The ghost of a garden
  15. A truth told slant
  16. The moon declines to answer
  17. A prayer stitched in silence
  18. The spider’s sermon
  19. A chill that sings
  20. The eye of God in a snowflake
  21. A bell that tolls for no one
  22. The absence of a name
  23. A poem folded in a drawer
  24. The wind declines to speak
  25. A soul that tiptoes
  26. The grave is not the end
  27. A bloom that blushes unseen
  28. The sky wore mourning
  29. A thought that outlives breath
  30. I dwell in possibility