Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 662
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a short note poem.
For this week's prompt, write a short note poem. Simple as it sounds. Write a poem that could read as a short note. Who is the note to? Who wrote the note? And, of course, what is the intent of the note? Dream up the answers to these questions and more in your poem.
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 Short Note Poem:
“dear reader,” by Robert Lee Brewer
the sun was too bright
& breeze blowing through
the window too light
for me to not leave you
this note instead of me
wandering out & away
from this room you see
into the beautiful day
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.
