Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 690
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a city poem.
For this week's prompt, write a city poem. The poem could just name drop a city in the title and go from there. Or it could be an ode to (or rant against) a specific city. Another option would be to set the poem in a city.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a City Poem:
“Rural Exodus,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Like a black hole on the horizon
the city formed brick by brick
and beam by beam. We saw trucks
deliver the buildings piece by piece
and the cranes lift high above the earth
those things pulled from the earth,
and then we felt ourselves pulled
toward the center as planes flew over
and in and away and the bridges
held our weight. The lights led us
in the night and made us forget
our hesitations and reservations
and intentions to never ever and
without realizing it the stars
disappeared one after the other
as the city swallowed us whole.
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.
