Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 640
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 pursuit poem.
For this week's prompt, write a pursuit poem. Your poem could be from the perspective of the pursuer or the pursued. Or maybe the poem takes an objective seat in the third person narrative voice. There are so many possible pursuits that a poet could poem in almost any direction they wish this week.
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 Pursuit Poem:
“rabbits and their holes,” by Robert Lee Brewer
for every unfollowed rabbit
there is a quiet rabbit hole
waiting to be explored like it
is the pursuit of all rabbits
to bury their secrets and it's
true every hole is just a hole
for every unfollowed rabbit
just wants a quiet rabbit hole.
(Note on the form: For this poem, I slanted a triolet. Click here for several more poetic forms to play with.)
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.
