march 2025 writing prompts

exclusive writing prompts about spring, renewal, & personal growth

Two Fairies Embracing in a Landscape with a Swan by Hans Zatzka (1859-1945)

❀ theme of the month: spring, renewal & personal growth

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Welcome to this month’s writing prompts! March is the month of almosts—the soft unraveling of winter’s grasp, the quiet ache of something just about to bloom. This is the space where poetry lives: in the in-betweens, the half-finished echoes, the fleeting light that lingers before it’s gone.

I hope these words stir something fresh and inspiring within you.

If you feel inspired by these prompts and share them on socials, don’t forget to tag me! If you post on Instagram, use the hashtag #cherryprompts so I can see your work.

Happy writing! 🌱✨

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❀ poetry prompts

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1. four-leafed

2. lick the last frost from your knuckles and swallow the thaw

3. luck tastes like copper & candle wax

4. the wind wears perfume made of...

5. i was just a seed, dreaming of the ruin of becoming

6. the sky splits its lip on a crocus bloom

7. press clover to tongue, see if the earth forgives you

8. petals rot so sweet, don’t they?

9. your voice moves like a river over stones, wearing me smooth, wearing me gone, wearing me down to bone

10. cracked citrus & cathedral bells

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❀ exclusive substack prompts

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11. new roots in your chest

12. the sky doesn't know how to be blue anymore, it's fraying at the edges

13. your hands smell like sap & survival, like you’ve been shaking hands with ghosts in the orchard again

14. a garden stretches in my throat, spilling from cracked lips

15. i turned my sorrow into wings

16. sonder (meaning: the realization that everyone has a life as full and complex as your own)

17. whispers of a life I almost lived

18. dancing, a shadow on the edge of dreams

19. step into the sunlight like it belongs to you—like you’ve earned every golden thread stitched into your skin

20. the first breath of spring feels like an unfinished prayer

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❀ march ritual: writing with the wind

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1. Find a place where the air stirs—an open window, a quiet balcony, a bench where the world hums softly around you. Let the wind press cool against your skin, tug at the edges of your thoughts.

2. Write something inspired by the breeze—restless, whispering, never quite still. What does it carry as it passes? A trace of lilacs? A distant echo of laughter? The memory of something you almost forgot?

3. If the moment calls for it, let the lines slip from your hands. Write it on paper, fold it gently, and let the wind take it—an offering to the hush between seasons, a secret only the air will keep.

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❀ muse of the month: forgotten fairy tales

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Retell one of these tales, but twist it—make it softer, wilder, or more tragic.

• The Swan Maiden (Scandinavian Folktale) – A woman transforms between swan and human, symbolizing cycles of change.

• The Snow Child (Russian Folktale) – A child made of snow melts with the arrival of spring, a haunting metaphor for impermanence.