Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 631
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 shape poem.
A couple things: First, I hope you're looking forward to this year's November Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge that starts in about two weeks. Second, I announced the winner of the WD Poetic Form Challenge for the Wordy 30 (find the results here).
For this week's prompt, write a shape poem. The poem can focus on a specific shape or mention objects that have a similar shape. Or the poem could make a shape (like a triangle or oval), though I know this can be tricky to pull off in the comments. One other thought: Make the title of your poem a shape, and then write a poem that mentions or doesn't mention the shape.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer's Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.
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Here’s my attempt at a Shape Poem:
“oval,” by Robert Lee Brewer
some folks are circles, others squares,
but i've always been more oval.
not that everyone really cares
about shapes like circles and squares,
or how they all move through the air
and slot in a world that's social--
pre-made for the circles and squares,
though not so much for the ovals.
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.
