Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 666
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an evil poem.
For this week's prompt, write an evil poem. Some people may debate whether good and evil even exists, but let's assume evil is a real thing this week. After all, we've been working our way (one Wednesday at a time) toward this number for 15 years now. Let's make it count before we move past it next week.
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 an Evil Poem:
“bleach,” by Robert Lee Brewer
alone he peers into the shadows
looking for the evil that follows
& then when he finds it he swallows
the spirits of the long lost hollows
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.
