Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 696
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a wind poem.
For this week's prompt, write a wind poem. Since wind is a homograph, you may automatically have unique ideas about what a wind poem is. Wind could be a breeze that blows in from the north, or wind could refer to something you do with one of those old-fashioned timers that you wind up. Whichever wind is on your mind, write it 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 Wind Poem:
“The Wind Always Winds Me Up,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Further along the long and winding road,
you will find a timer counting out time
one tick at a time as the howling wind
prowls the periphery of what could or
could not be, moments fading bitterly
into the evening that captures us all,
remembering the voice that never called,
remembering the night that could've been,
remembering the where, the why, and when.
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.
