Let the Dice Choose

This is a poetry prompts challenge that covers 120 days. For it you will need a d6 (6 sided die) and a d20 (20 sided die) plus your preferred writing tools.

The 120 prompts are broken down into 6 lists of 20 prompts each. Every day, you roll the d6 to choose which of the 6 lists your prompt will come from. Then you roll the d20 to choose which of those 20 prompts will be your prompts for the day. If you roll a prompt you’ve already done, simply re-roll until you get a new one.

List 1
1. Your Inspriation
2. Pink
3. Beauty
4. Strength
5. Feelings
6. Dreams
7. Childhood
8. A Job
9. Food
10. Stars
11. Last
12. Tradition
13. First Night
14. Annual Goal
15. Best Day
16. Black & White
17. Underneath
18. Did it!
19. Memoir
20. Wrapped

List 2
1. First
2. About Me
3. Sonnet
4. Being Alone
5. Blue
6. A Process
7. Inspired By…
8. Life
9. A Story
10. Summer
11. Night
12. Change
13. I Wish I Could
14. Something Beginning with T
15. Love
16. Confidence
17. A Friend
18. Music
19. Family
20. Nature

List 3
1. “Impressed” (title)
2. Elements
3. Retell a Story in Poem Form
4. Items That Are Always Close By
5. “Guilt” (title)
6. “Forgiveness” (title)
7. “Spirit Animal” (title)
8. “Last Time” (title)
9. Weather
10. Weakness
11. “Arrival” (title)
12. “Last Call” (title)
13. A Surprise You Experienced
14. “Choices” (title)
15. “Promises” (title)
16. “Breathe” (title)
17. “Pain” (title)
18. “Luck”(title)
19. “Abstract” (title)
20. A Feeling That’s Hard to Describe

List 4
1. Everybody
2. Things People Say
3. Wrong Way
4. Too Many
5. Remember
6. Song
7. Impatience
8. If
9. 100 Years
10. What I Wrote
11. Person Who Changed Your Life
12. “Hope” (title)
13. Guilty Pleasures
14. “My Skin” (title)
15. “Home” (title)
16. “Clarity” (title)
17. A Rivalry
18. “Fears” (title)
19. A Significant Memory
20. “Things I’ve Lost” (title)

List 5
1. Things We Carry
2. An Open Door
3. Faces in the Street
4. Mirror
5. This Road
6. Aftermath
7. Very Loud
8. Shoes
9. Nothing
10. Anywhere in the World
11. Out of Control
12. Forgotten
13. Witness
14. Small Things
15. Early Morning
16. Warning
17. Walk Away
18. Super Market
19. Failures
20. Victories

List 6 (this list has some holiday specific prompts, these can be substituted for prompts more appropriate for the time of year)
1. Years Past
2. Caroling
3. Mistletoe
4. Snowy Flight
5. Christmas Romance
6. Grandma’s Recipe
7. Please, Santa
8. Nostalgia
9. Peace
10. Cookie-Gram
11. Pinnacle
12. The Visitor
13. Boxing Day
14. Bygones
15. Past Glory
16. New Plans
17. Blank Page
18. First Step
19. First Snow
20. Parcels

I started this challenge, because I personally struggle with the Day 1, do this prompt type challenges. I prefer not knowing what the next prompt will actually be, this allows me more creative freedom. Feel free to share this with anyone, use it for your classes or personal poetry writing, or tag me in any poems that come as a result of this challenge.

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