Plant Your Poetry Prompt Calendar - March

Here is another month's worth of themed prompts and a live writing session to steer you into your 2025 flourishing writing life.

“You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.”
Sri Aurobindo

What another amazing month of writing a poem a day for February on the theme of Connection. It was beautiful to read your poems and see how you connected with each other too!

It was a very special month in particular regarding connection for me as I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl last week and I’m now navigating parenthood! I have a little anxiety about how I’m going to integrate my writing routine with a newborn but I’m giving myself some grace and solely focusing on noticing the moments where there are potential areas for downtime, so I can still show up for this poetry community - because it gives me a lot of fulfilment and vitality!

I hope you enjoy the writing session I have put together which also includes some of your amazing poems and lines from the month of February, as well as a writing session on our first prompt of March! I hope it motivates you to continue with the prompts I’ve carefully curated for you throughout the rest of the month.

A reminder for everyone: there is a subscriber only chat available where you can share your words daily as you write them, I will be posting a new thread at the beginning of each month and you can reply to the thread with your poems, that way they will be easy to find and others working their way through the prompts can offer their support and encouragement towards your beautiful lines of poetry. I will be reading every piece that is written and will highlight poems that resonate on the 1st of the next month.

If this is your first time writing with me or Plant Your Poetry, here are a few helpful tips on how to begin and how to keep going:

• Download and print out the monthly prompts, you can do so below. Stick them up somewhere you will see them often

• Look at the prompt of the day or choose a prompt that speaks to you and grab something to write with

• Set a timer for 10 minutes and write whatever wants to be written, little to no editing as you go will give it an easier flow

• Don’t beat yourself up if you miss a day, love yourself back on track

• Keep a special journal or dedicate a folder or notebook specifically for these prompts and poems to keep everything in one place

• Share your words where you can - you will be seen, encouraged and supported

• Nothing matters except the goal of writing for 10 minutes on the prompt today.

• If you are struggling, seek support and tell about it

• Write with a buddy, share the prompts between you, write on alternative days and send them to each other, or meet up to write where you can, accountability is your best friend

• Know that you deserve this and you are someone who can do this sort of thing.

Underneath the writing session below are downloadable and printable pages of the Plant Your Poetry Prompt Calendar so you may stick the prompts up somewhere in your sacred or creative space to write, meditate, or ponder on. It may feel satisfying to tick off the prompts as you go.