What Inspires You? A Poem Writing Prompt
Rather than finding inspiration from a traditional prompt, photo, or words, reflect on what inspires you. Is it a person, place, or thing? Is it something you do? Maybe it’s something you read, watch, or play. Whatever your inspiration, describe it through verse in this poem writing prompt.
I wrote about this very thing a few years ago after reading a couple of books that made me push myself to write after at time away. Finding a new book to love pushes me to become a better writer.
Lost in purchased imagery
of foreign sights and sounds
expressing
voicing
past thoughts silently suppressed.
A flow of words across the eye
of people, places, and emotions. A
transformation
transition
moving picture of the mind.
Hands anchor and trade
with fingers at the ready to
flip
turn
thumb through to new realities.
Thoughts race at contemplation of motive,
an anticipation of twist
reveal
shock
perhaps I knew it all along.
Such daily relaxation forever cheap
a brain-cation
motivation
incitation
to pick up my own pen and take a leap.
