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Prompts for NaPoWriMo 2025

  • People as Flowers

  • If you were in charge of your town's weather for a day

  • A Manifesto for the Underground Press

  • A Jungle's final lullaby - half prayer, half farewell

  • Self-Portrait as your online shopping cart

  • The Secret Nightlife of Bookmarks

  • The Family Whatsapp group is a living room with no exits

  • A Fun poem in which a mythical character is your roommate

  • Invent a Holiday

  • Diary of a Monument

  • The Calendar rearranges itself out of Boredom

  • I am not a poet when I answer Emails

  • The Kitchen's Cache

  • The Anti Muse

  • Falling in Love as a state-run process

  • Google Maps goes rogue

  • A Wedding Between Two Cities

  • You are hired to write political speeches but only in lies that feel good

  • Your favourite memory writes a will

  • The Landfill of Internet Hatred

Prompts for NaPoWriMo 2024

  • Persuade your favorite book to change its title 

  • The town I grew up in does not exist

  • What I See When I Stare Long Enough Into Nothing

  • Love begins with a metaphor

  • Architecture of Loneliness

  • Animals and birds you often come across

  • Onions, potatoes and tomatoes

  • Voice of the Air

  • Casual Forgetfulness

  • Notes on Fingernails

  • A conversation between two languages

  • The Patience of Ordinary Things

  • The Muses Among us

  • Don't call us dead

  • Prelude to the making of a poem

  • Memoirs of Walking Barefoot

  • Biography of Broken Things

  • Self Contradictions

  • Trying to Fly

  • Making Lists

  • Summer is for falling in Love

  • A Take-off On a passing remark

  • Lunch Boxes

  • Tangled Roots

  • Making up Memory

  • In the country of resurrection

  • Proofs & Theories

  • Almost Gods

  • Parting letter To April

  • An end has a start

Prompts for NaPoWriMo 2023

I started something I couldn't finish

Flowers at night 

Every Dead Thing is in need of more mourning

A Poem from a woman in love

We are gift-wrapping the earth in plastic, but for whom?

Prayers walk in high heels

Haircut and Hair colouring as a reset button

I have built speed breakers in my heart

Our silence lives in the body of others

Explore the soul of your city through poetry

An ode to mispronunciations

Meeting a poet outside their poems

Brief Heaven

Neon Gods

I had a dream you won't understand even if I tell 

Explore the emotional journey of adulting

A Poem from a woman in love

What we cannot hear

Second thoughts before deleting a photograph

Portrait of the space we occupy

Surging sensationalism and short-lived empathy

An elbow poem

A love letter to my future self

A lullaby for your father

An ode to mispronunciations

Euphemisms and alternate names for the word 'Ending'

Prompts for NaPoWriMo 2022

  • I like melancholy, so I write in the past tense

  • I'm afraid when I don't know what I'm afraid of

  • It's too beautiful. All this beauty can be exhausting.

  • What Color Is The Rain You See?

  • Name everything for the first time

  • An ode to the Nose

  • God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

  • Buddha in a Metaverse

  • Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed

  • Trees have no elsewhere

  • Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

  • A Poem for your Aadhar Card

  • A litmus test of Indian Democracy

  • Where do we get our dreams from?

  • The sudden movement of objects

  • Water has memory

  • The Beginning of Possibility is not even the beginning

  • Our eyes bend what they can't see

  • A Poem for your favourite kind of flower

  • Borrowed Meanings

  • Everyone laughs. Nobody remembers why. We all have tears in our eyes.

  • Children Live in a Parallel Universe

  • Tongues of Light

  • A Conversation with your Clothes

  • A World Where News Travelled Slowly

  • Mother's Handwriting

  • Misremembered Lyrics

  • The Day I was named

  • An ode to our Vocabulary

  • You must love somebody

NaPoWriMo Guidelines and FAQs

  • Every day in April, a new poetry prompt will be added to this page.

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  • Anyone can take part in Poems India NaPoWriMo 2025 by writing a poem in response to any of the prompts.

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  • The attempted poem does not have to include the exact wording or phrase of the prompt, but it must be related to the prompt.

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