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Monthly poetry and creative writing prompts

  • Writer: CoraLynn
    CoraLynn
  • Feb 26, 2025
  • 2 min read

Updated: Oct 16, 2025

Monthly prompts to find writing inspiration this month!


Hi everyone!


As winter fades and spring announces its arrival, it feels like the perfect time to refresh our creativity and explore some new ideas! Hopefully, you will find something to spark your imagination with these creative writing and poetry prompts for March. Let’s embrace the changing of the seasons with words that bloom like the first signs of spring.


For these monthly writing prompts, I have chosen 25 creative poetry prompts and 5 creative writing prompts to spark inspiration within you. The prompts shared are designed to stretch your imagination and invite you to explore new perspectives. Hopefully, they will nudge you toward an untapped corner of your imagination. I encourage you to use them flexibly. Feel free to adapt them, twist them, and follow them with curiosity wherever they lead.


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notebook, houseplant and a coffee mug saying "go get em"
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25 Poetry prompts


  • A winter hangover

  • Chasing Eden

  • Honeyed hope

  • Tides of the earth

  • Natural remedy 

  • Birdsong 

  • Blooming into wild things

  • They lead with grace 


  • I am a mother to all

  • Welcoming the wildflowers

  • Tangerine skies

  • Born to be a poet 

  • The shallow end of sorrow 

  • A hunger for poetry 

  • Wandering the evergreen 

  • Blissful blossoms 


  • Easy does it 

  • Find you in every tomorrow 

  • Waking up sleeping giants 

  • This love is mine

  • Soft agony

  • Dauntless dreams

  • Spring secrets

  • Caressing clouds

  • A wild emerald


Creative writing prompts


  • Write about two stars in the sky people watching at night.

  • Write about a houseplant watching spring unfold from behind the window.

  • Write a goodbye letter to winter.

  • Write about the first bloom of spring.

  • Write about your day through the perspective of your favorite flower/houseplant.


I hope these prompts will help get the creative energy flowing for this new and exciting month as we welcome spring. I would love to read your poems or stories on these, so feel free to share them in the comments. 


If you are looking for more writing inspiration then check out last month's poetry prompts here: https://www.coralynn.me/post/creative-writing-and-poetry-prompts


Thank you for being here with me on A Gentle Quill! I appreciate all of you making time to read and engage with my posts!! Your kindness and support mean the world to me!


Sending all my love,

CoraLynn

A Gentle Quill




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