Use Writers block to your advantage

I have an essay and two portfolios to hand in next week and due to this my brain is completely empty. I have never had to come up with so many concepts to write about before. For one of my portfolios I am focusing on prose poems which are quite simply a cross between poetry and stories and are meant to evoke feelings rather than characterisation. I was sat here for hours completely stuck on what to write, so guess what I did? I wrote a prose poem about writers block!

No matter what your state of mind is, remember that there is always something to write about!

Write a poem about…

So I found these great poem starters on a site called Creative Writing Now which are ideas you can write poems about and some of them I can’t wait to try out such as the one about being underwater. Here they are:

1. Night-time
2. A particular color
3. Being underwater
4. A person whose life you’re curious about
5. Your mother’s perfume
6. Falling asleep or waking up
7. Growing older
8. The feeling of getting lost in a book
9. How to know if you’re in love
10. A bad dream
11. A ghost
12. Your city, town, or neighborhood
13. An important life choice you’ve made
14. Spring, summer, fall, or winter
15. Something most people see as ugly but which you see as beautiful
16. Jealousy
17. Becoming a parent
18. An event that changed you
19. A place you visited — how you imagined it beforehand, and what it was actually like
20. The ocean
21. Forgetting
22. The speed of light
23. A voodoo doll
24. Reflections on a window
25. A newspaper headline
26. Your greatest fear
27. Your grandmother’s hands
28. A particular toy you had as a child
29. Being invisible
30. A time you felt homesick
31. Having an affair, or discovering your partner is having one
32. Birthdays
33. A favorite food and a specific memory of eating it
34. An imaginary city
35. Driving with the radio on
36. Life in an aquarium
37. Dancing
38. Walking with your eyes closed
39. What a computer might daydream about
40. Time travel
41. Brothers or sisters
42. Your job, or a job you’ve had
43. Weddings
44. Leaving home
45. Camping
46. A zoo
47. A historical event from the perspective of someone who saw it firsthand (You will have to do some research for this).
48. Holding your breath
49. Intimacy and privacy
50. A time you were tempted to do something you feel is wrong
51. Physical attraction to someone
52. A superstition you have
53. Someone you admire