Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 675
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a spooky poem.
This will be the final Wednesday Poetry Prompt until December. That's because we'll be starting the November Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge next Wednesday, which will be running every day through the month of November. Guidelines here.
For this week's prompt, write a spooky poem. The poem could be about walking around late at night while owls hoot and dogs bark. Or perhaps it involves ghosts and spirits. Of course, the imagination is one of the spookiest things of all. Let's use ours this 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 a Spooky Poem:
“the only thing,” by Robert Lee Brewer
everyone is afraid of something
for instance i can't stand heights
and others don't like tight spaces
personally i'll take a flesh and blood
zombie or werewolf over a mirror
or open window any day of the week
the emptiness of a quiet night
scares me more than almost anything
because there's so much room to fill
i could fall off the face of the earth
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.
