Poemancer

April 28, 2026: Shores, Habits, Healing


Here’s your last Tuesday prompt of NaPoWriMo:

Today’s Prompt

Write a haibun that incorporates the cards Shores, Habits, and Healing.

Haibun are prose poems followed by a haiku. The haibun and the haiku share the same considerations: meditative attention towards the natural world; a sense of looking, listening, and feeling without judging. The haiku typically condenses and expands upon the prose to land on a moment of epiphany.

Your poem might traverse literal, littoral shores. It might traverse metaphorical ones. Either way, meditate on these cards and write what arises.

Here are paintings and prompts:

Shores

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/14598/the-beach-at-sainte-adresse

What are you standing at the edge of?

Habits

https://collections.discovernewfields.org/art/artwork/54853

What patterns of behavior are you paying attention to?

Healing

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/112885/decorative-study-woman-with-sunflowers

Write a poem where it gets better.


Leave a Reply

Want More Prompts and Craft Tips?