I don’t often give prompts for poetry, but I do write poetry on occasion. Much of the prompts I have provided are easy to manipulate if one wishes to apply it to lines of verse. In this prompt, though it will be directed at extending images in poetry, it is reasonable to expect that extending a descriptive image in prose writing is just as important, so feel free to adjust it to fit a story.
Below are three short images. As a sample, I am extending one of them. But the other two are for anybody visiting to practice extending the image.
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| tiny ships in a busy harbor |
a boat moored in a small busy harbor
The skiff tipped a bobbing gait with the wash
of the waves coming in, coming in and going out
in rippled ramps, after being beat into gentleness
by the tight harbor’s cluttered docks.
Now your turn.
- a barking dog at night
- dark clouds overhead
