Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 644
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 happy poem.
For this week's prompt, write a happy poem. The poem could be about someone else's happiness or your own. Maybe the poem looks at the pursuit of happiness or reveals a moment of pure joy. Of course, write this one in whatever way makes you happy.
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 Happy Poem:
“chance,” by Robert Lee Brewer
i ran softly along the dirt trail
running above the creek far below
when i noticed an animal's tail
& splashing where the water ran slow
a raccoon was playing with a pail
& putting on an ecstatic show
for just me to either tell the tale
or keep it for only me to know
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.
