Poetry Prompts
from Rachel Joy Welcher
"Poetry is my love language, my lament language, my way of wrapping hope around a fig tree." -Rachel Joy Welcher
WE WANNA READ YOUR POETRY
Poet Rachel Joy Welcher provides 3 fun writing prompts for The Holy Shift community. Share your poetry in the comments below or on Instagram with #theHolyShiftPoetry
Write a eulogy for someone you love who is still alive.
(You don’t have to share it with them if you don’t want to, but we invite you to share it with us!)
Write a poem with the title: “Good Things That Are Still Good Even When Your Heart is Breaking”
(Start by making a list and/or read Rachel’s poem by the same title for reference!)
Write an imaginative reading of a Psalm, Bible story, or specific chapter in the Bible.
(See: “By the Rivers of Babylon” for a reference. The first part is linked here.)
You don’t have to write like Shel Silverstein or Shakespeare to be a poet.
Rachel Joy Welcher
ABOUT THE POET/TEACHER
RACHEL JOY WELCHER
is a poet and author living in South Dakota with her husband, Pastor Evan Welcher, and their longed-for daughter, Hildegaard. Rachel works as an editor at Fathom Magazine and Lexham Press and received her Master of Letters in theology from The University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of four books: “Blue Tarp” (Finishing Line Press, 2016), “Two Funerals, Then Easter” (Dustlings Press, 2018), “Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality” (InterVarsity Press, 2020), and “Sometimes Women Lie About Being Okay” (Dustlings Press, 2022).
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