It is my favorite season—cool weather, clear nights, carved pumpkins and spooky decor—so let’s have another poem to haunt your thoughts. Thanks to Han VanderHart for sharing!
For the first prompt, explain how you know you are loved using supernatural phenomena, perhaps a beam encircling you from something above you in the night sky, a voice that whispers your name from an empty room, a pair of eyes glowing outside your window. Next add a scientific fact or piece of common knowledge and then end by connecting this fact to the supernatural.
The second prompt is to use the lines “It surrounds us / even if we can’t / see it” as a ghostline. Remember to erase the line after finishing the poem and credit the poet for your inspiration.
The next is to write a poem or story using the following list of words: “haunted,” “radio,” “flickering,” “folded,” “square,” “emit,” “light” and “surrounds.”
The next prompt is more of an exercise. Take the poem’s lines as a kind of Mad Lib, replacing the nouns and verbs with their antonyms. If any of the lines you’ve recreated have a friction for you, take that line and make it the first line of a poem or story and continue from there.
Good luck writing! Have fun!