Old maps can be a great source of inspiration, why not get an old map and write your poetry straight onto the pages. Where does the map represent? Do you have memories there?
If you are artistic why not draw a picture on the map and then see where that takes your imagination or just look at the picture above, set a timer for 5 minutes and just start writing.
There are some amazing pictures and concepts to be found on the site Pinterest, so we have set up a WoPo Inspired board which you can scroll through to find ideas or a mood or a feeling for your poetry.
Ripples and waves make up everything around us, the patterns repeated on different scales, again and again through nature but within these ways lurks the super waves, seemingly out of nowhere and yet there is a pattern there too.
Find an example of waves or ripples, then spend 10 minutes writing about them.
Imaging that you could change into anything that you wanted, from a squirrel to a snail, to a bear, to the Earth, star, universe, or maybe into love or life itself.
What would be your choice and why?
Spend 20 minutes writing on this. At the end look at what you have written, and begin to construct it into a poem.
The image library social media site Pinterest can be a gold mine for poets. Start a board collect images that inspire you, then spend five minutes with each picture examining it, it may invoke a mood with in you or remind you of something.
Set yourself a set amount of time each night to write from the images.
Do 10 minutes of writing from this photo, maybe ask yourself where the child is going? Are they lost? Where doe the path go? Is there happiness in sunshine and leaf litter?
Have you ever looked at a cloud or tree and seen a shape of a dragon or boat or lady with streaming hair? Above is a photo of a moss pig found in Cranham Woods. What do the creatures hidden within things do? How do they feel and think or are they nothing but figments of over active imaginations?
Look at the picture above and begin to write.
Choose something to make the world out off – cheese, textiles, car parts, frog slime… you name it and then you create it. How would it work? What would the people, animals and plants be like?
Do not over think though, just choose you substance and start to write.
Look at the above image, what do pink roses make you think off? Can you conjure up how they smell in your minds-nose?
Write for ten minutes.