Anyone who knows me, knows that I love poetry. I love writing it, reading it, analysing it – there is just something about it that helps to calm me and get my thoughts out on paper. I thought I’d do something a little bit different and start a poetry challenge. Please tag me in your poems (@recovering_my_ sparkle on Instagram) and use the hashtag maypoetrychallenge as well!

1. A letter to your past self – what advice would you give the younger you?
2. A place that feels like home – describe a location that brings comfort to you.
3. Things left unsaid – write about words you never said out loud and what they mean to you.
4. Roots and wings – write about growth and freedom.
5. The language of flowers – choose a flower and let it ‘speak’.
6. Firelight and shadows – explore warmth and fear in contrast using the metaphors of fire and shadows.
7. Echoes of laughter – pick out a joyful memory and write about that.
8. The love that changed you – whether it’s romantic or platonic, how did this love shape you?
9. If your reflection spoke back – what would it say?
10. A letter from the stars – what would they say?
11. A scar tells a story – physical or emotional, what do your scars say?
12. The first time you felt free – capture that moment and the emotions that you felt.
13. A secret you never said – it can be real or imagined.
14. A thunderstorm inside you – how does this feel?
15. Love letter to a stranger – write to someone you’ll never meet.
16. The ghost of someone still alive – a person who drifted away.
17. The taste of nostalgia – capture a memory through tatse.
18. A storm that never ends – what would it feel like to live inside this?
19. The colour of loneliness – what colour would it be, and why? Is this something you can relate to?
20. A world without fear – imagine it, describe it, paint a picture (through words) about what it would be like.
21. If I could hold time in my hands… – Start by finishing this line, what would you do with it?
22. A place you can never return to – physically or emotionally.
23. A dream that felt more real than reality – what happened?
24. Write a poem that ends with a beginning – a cycle, a rebirth, a new start.
25. A clock that runs too fast (or too slow) – what would it change?
26. The garden that only blooms at night – what would grow there? What things bloom and thrive in the darkness?
27. The sound of healing – talk about what you believe healing, recovery, forgiveness, or peace sounds like.
28. A conversation with the moon – what would you say? What would it reply?
29. Tomorrow begins with… – finish the thought.
30. The first line of a new chapter – what do you think is next for you in your life?

Let me know how you get on!

All my love,

Anna x