My brain hurts, and I have no idea what I will write for either a prompt or for a poem (so far I’ve kept up with writing a poem a day). To save some of my gray matter (more like dryer lint at this point), I am going to share prompts from other people.
The first prompt is from a roleplaying adventure, but it could work for a fun story or poem—definitely will create a steamy scene (sorry, not sorry).
This prompt below is from Kelli Russell Agodon, whose poetry is beautiful.
2. Write about a poem about a superhero coming to your house and confronting you about something. Somewhere in the poem, you have to state what your superpower is.
For the full thirty prompts posted (which include word lists, a twist on a family recipe and various line restrictions and other constraints), check out her website: https://www.agodon.com/uploads/2/9/4/3/2943768/writing_prompts_by_kelli_russell_agodon.pdf
But if you want another adventure prompt, here is Dice Company to the rescue:
Of course you can always change the stagecoach to a motorcycle and the Bag of Holding to a purse or backpack to make the prompt less fantasy-like for your own writing. Or you could make it more surreal: chased by a deep regret, describe what you throw to help you escape or to finally sate its hunger: your abandoned manuscript runs after you, pages flapping madly, and you throw pencils and ink pens at it until its pages bleed blue. Or something even weirder.
You could use a random generator for a fantasy location and describe it in a story or poem, applying it to your own life if possible.
I definitely could describe myself wandering around a medical center today, late for multiple appointments.
For the next prompt, imagining yourself as a castle, describe the person for whom you’d lower your drawbridge. How would you let the person in?
Moving from castles to forts, personify your own or a former lover’s defenses and boundaries but gradually shift the warlike framing to one of gardening and tending. See what happens as you shift the terminology.
And for the final prompt: Write a story or poem based on this image of group of people/the tunnel.
Good luck! Have fun!