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Poetry Prompts

Take a look at these poetry starting points, and some images of nature to kick-start your poetic inspiration!

Close up of bracken showing green, yellow, and brown colours.

Summer is here. What can you see? Leaving, arriving, persisting, nourishing, flourishing.

A frond of bracken covered in hoar frost with the sun seeping through from behind.

What's outside your window? Make a list of everything you can see. They are the first words of your poem's lines.

A partially-opened dog rose in the forest with gentle sunlight behind.

5 in 5. Go to your favourite spot - physically or mentally. Spend 5 minutes free writing on each sense. What can you, see, hear, feel, smell, taste?

Two daffodil heads open with a woodland and twilight sky behind.

Lost in the forest. 1. Where were you going? 2. What will happen if you don't get there on time? 3. What will you be doing, lost in the forest, instead?

An orange sycamore leaf is held up against a twilight sky and green grass, by a gloved hand.

Gratitude. Make a list of things from the natural world you are grateful for. Why are you grateful for them? Where would you be without them?

Hawthorn blossom with evening sun behind. The white petals are tinged with pink.

Autumn is all around. What can you see Leaving, arriving, persisting, nourishing, flourishing?

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