Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 693
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a reset poem.
OK, April is over, but it's Wednesday; so, let's poem.
For this week's prompt, write a reset poem. While it feels like we're still poeming daily (only because we are), the next poetry prompt won't come for another week (next Wednesday). So let's get reset...and poem about it.
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 Reset Poem:
“Say When,” by Robert Lee Brewer
It's late at night;
so I plug in the kids' laptops
and unpack their lunch boxes.
Then, I head upstairs
to tuck them in and say,
"Good night; I love you,"
before brushing my teeth,
resetting the alarms on my phone
and falling asleep beside you.
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.
