‘Every ride a ritual. Every ritual a ride.’ – Drop City by T.C. Boyle

Whether a road trip, bad trip, journey through a life experience, or the rituals in your life from the simple to the elaborate, write a poem about the rituals involved in a journey OR the emotional and/or physical mapping of a ritual itself. The one rule is that it must be yours, not an observation of someone else’s. Extra points if you can combine the two.

Editor’s note: try long-lined couplets or a numbered list for this prompt!

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Mo Schoenfeld is a (mostly) short form poet in the UK whose work appears in The Storms, Irisi Magazine, Fevers of the Mind, Wombwell Rainbow, Haiku Crush’s Best Haiku 2021-2025 (Judges Grand Mention, 2022), Pure Haiku, Tiny Wren Lit, and Sidhé Press, serving as guest editor for Our Own Coordinates: Poems About Dementia and To Light the Trails: Poems by Women in a Violent World. She’s also had work on the podcasts Eat The Storms and A Thousand Shades of Green.