Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 642
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 love poem.
For this week's prompt, write a love poem. With Valentine's Day just around the corner, romantic love poems make a lot of sense, and yes, feel encouraged to write those if you feel so inclined. But love is more complicated than that. There's also love between family, friends, and a universal love.
Love can be happy, sad, mad, apathetic, and so on. Write your "love" poem in whatever fashion you wish today.
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 Love Poem:
“outside the service,” by Robert Lee Brewer
we sit on a bench
& don't say a word,
because we both feel
the same loss, the same
breath is pulled from us
as we remember
the way he could tell
a joke and a lie
and neither of us
wants to face a world
without either truth,
a world without his
voice calling to us.
(Note about love poems: Here's my personal list of the best love poems ever.)
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.
