Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 689
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a saving poem.
Save the date! On the morning of April 1, we'll be starting up the 17th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge. Get the guidelines here.
For this week's prompt, write a saving poem. My initial inspiration was Daylight Savings Time coming up this weekend, but people can also save lives, save money, save space, and a variety of other things. Save a moment to write your own saving poem 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 Saving Poem:
“Save Tomorrow,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Today isn't finished with me
quite yet. I feel it tugging
my sleeve, whispering secret
poems I still have to write
in flickering candle light
as the birds all fall asleep
with the songs their silence keeps.
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.
