Writing Prompt
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POEM STARTER
Write a romance poem that is really very unromantic.
Try to think of the normal elements of romantic poems and reverse them!
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warm morning sunlight filtering through the curtains the breeze from the cracked window
her in my arms her breaths fanning my face my arm around her waist
the sun illuminates her skin. the parts you could never see unless you woke up beside her
the raised lines you’d never know theyve healed and disappeared but in the morning’s magic they’re revealed to me
our burden to bear
Im in the trees Im in the breeze My footsteps are on the ground You try to chase me But know one can stop me now
Im the past Im here and im everywhere But you can’t catch me
You watch me fall You watch my every move
But that was your mistake I watch you plan at night I knew what you did
But as I run through the breeze You watch me fly Try to catch me down But there is a snake by you All that you see left of me now is an earring The scarf you gave me falls to the ground
You shout my name Try to shoot your gun But i am never coming back
I didn’t bring you roses, The florists had already closed And chocolates? Well - I ate them on the way home
There isn’t a candlelit dinner waiting, Only the glow of the microwave, Heating up a box of leftovers we half ate from the other day
I’m not serenading you under the moonlight - It’s hard to sing on key Especially when you are yelling about the trash bins I refused to empty
I didn’t write you a love letter, Not even a card you will see But I did scribble “Buy eggs” on the back of a receipt So that’s basically poetry
This is love, isn’t it? I mean - I remembered eventually So I said Happy Anniversary Because it’s about forgetting the date, But never forgetting the memories
Oh, juliett.. your eyes are like.. like.. fungus. Due to how they grow for.. love..? Everytime I stare. Oh juliett, your lips are like deserts, because of how dry they always seem, or.. are? Your breasts are as beautiful as gum drops because.. they are.. small and petite. Something like that. Oh juliett, I give up.
I couldn’t choose between these two topics so here’s two Drugs Burn:
I don’t find the first time I saw you rememberable
I don’t remeber the other times I sat in a room with you all that thrilling either
I don’t know if it was because I was to wrapped up in my own shit
Or because you weren’t interested in seeing my bright side
I only remember you being near when I was at my weakest
When my wrists were dripping
When my thoughts were suffocating
Do I remember you being near
You soothed my pain
Stitched my wrists
Brought me back down to earth
You were like a drug
Ridding me of my pain
Occasionally I feel the withdrawal of you
And try to fill the void of you
With painkillers and pills
Sometimes those aren’t enough
So I tear up my skin
To feel the burns you gave me
Because you unzipped my skin and lit up my darkest corners
Little did I know you watched the light burn me up into nothing
Haunting: I enjoy wandering
But my mind is a scary place to wander
I have a corner of my mind I decorated with memories of you
I like to think of it as a house
With tons of rooms filled with memories of you.
Unfortunately the house is abandoned now
I wander through the house to feel the whispers of you
To see your ghost wander through the rooms
But you’re not coming back
And it haunts me
I would say I got lost in your eyes, Entangled in your web of beautiful lies.
I walked over hot coals Feeling the red, hot sear of rekindled passion On the soles of my feet, Repressed in ill-fitting shoes, Waltzing with a clumsy partner Who steps on my toes all night.
You build me up to continuously tear me down But I have a degradation kink And I want you to spit on my grave.
Death pays its dues. I’ll always be the one who got away
While you’re still squandering the labyrinth of my complex oddities, Putting me in the cabinet with all of your other curiosities.
A picture lasts longer than a thousand words So why not display my corpse, Mummify my devotion, Just to take me out at your bland dinner parties?
Tell your equally bland guests about our game of cat and mouse. How I sure fought until the bitter end But you eventually wore me down And took me as your trophy.
Shall I compare thee to a cold winter’s night? For you are far colder, your frost a biting blight.
Your dead, blue eyes gloss over, veiled in white haze, A snow-blown blizzard, an endless, frozen maze.
Your touch chills to the bone, no warmth to find, At times I wonder—does your heart beat behind?
Your smile is sharp, malicious, it cuts like a blade, Yet in your jagged beauty, divinity is displayed.
My dear, you steal my breath with every glance, In this cruel ballet of death and my dance.
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POEM STARTER
Write an Epode based on any theme you like.
An Epode is a style of poetry where each verse is two lines which differ in meter and structure, but the second line is always shorter than the first.