Kait Quinn Poetry

Poet & Resource for the Poetry Community

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Writing Prompt: Alliteration

Prompt

Write a poem inspired by or using at least one of the following alliterative lines:

  • “final summer as something feral”
  • “grabbing fistfuls of gladiolus”
  • “August as an afterthought”

Keep the alliteration going and learn more about this poetic device below!

Alliteration is a literary/poetic device in which several words that are close together start with the same sound (usually a consonant):

the leaping lemur stopped to lick the lonely lemon

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Writing Prompt: Ocean Eyes

Prompt

Use at least one of these ocean-and-eye themed images in your poem:

  • tidal eyes
  • watercolor irises
  • sea tears
  • pupils deep as the Mariana Trench
  • corneal flood

Sea Trio

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Writing Prompt: Personifying Nature

Prompt

Using these quotes from Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing as inspiration, write a poem in which you personify the weather, seasons, or other natural phenomena.

‘Then one afternoon, just like that, spring elbowed her way in for good.’

‘It was a gray-sky day, and fingers of fog flirted with the waves.’

Marsh Trio

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