Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 671
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a flower poem.
For this week's prompt, write a flower poem. Your poem could feature a flower or flowers. Or it could have a flower in the title of the poem and then go from there. And keep in mind that the word flower can be used in other ways than just describing pretty plants.
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 Flower Poem:
“in her hair,” by Robert Lee Brewer
the flowers are no longer there
as if they faded in the sun
along with all her auburn hair
the flowers are no longer there
in all the places everywhere
where she once would always run
and now the flowers are not there
as if they faded in the sun
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.
