Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 650
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 meanwhile poem.
Who's ready to get back to poeming each week? It's always weird going from weekly to daily and daily to weekly (kind of like daylight savings time), but I find it's often healthy (both from a writing and mental health perspective) to change up the pace from time to time. So let's get back in a weekly rhythm...
For this week's prompt, write a meanwhile poem. As in somebody's doing something in one place, and meanwhile, something else is happening elsewhere. For instance, I'm putting together a poetry prompt; meanwhile, my neighbor is mowing their lawn; and meanwhile, somebody else is paying for their groceries; and so on and so forth.
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 Meanwhile Poem:
“as i mow my lawn,” by Robert Lee Brewer
an angry robin chirps at me
walking this way and that beneath
its nest hidden out of my reach
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.
