Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 616
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write a deep thoughts poem.
For this week's prompt, let's write a deep thoughts poem. People have deep thoughts all the time about a range of topics. Maybe they look at ice cream and think about all the steps needed for making that ice cream and delivering it to their local store. Or maybe they have deep thoughts about a moment in their life from long, long ago. I'll leave you with your deep thoughts for this one.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Deep Thoughts Poem:
“water,” by Robert Lee Brewer
the world is covered in it
my body is filled with it
and when i let it dry up
my body lets me know it
needs more and more of it
but when i think of it
i usually think of it falling
from the sky and it creating
puddles into which i can splash
or descending as snow or making
ice to slide upon or crack open
with my boots and it's weird
to think of the world
that's covered with it
and think it is becoming
a scarce commodity in the world
even as the sea levels continue to rise
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
