Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 698
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a vehicle poem.
For this week's prompt, write a vehicle poem. The poem could be about a car, bus, motorcycle, jet, yacht, cart, sled, space shuttle, go kart, or any number of other vehicles. And don't forget that a vehicle can also be a thing used to express something else (like a poem could be a vehicle for communicating your thoughts on vehicles). So jump on a skateboard, train, or helicopter and poem away!
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 Vehicle Poem:
“BMX,” by Robert Lee Brewer
There's nothing like my Huffy bike
for getting all around this town
with no surface that I can't strike
while gliding on my Huffy bike
across road, trail, or railroad spike.
Whether the hills go up or down,
nothing can stop my Huffy bike
from getting all around this town.
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.
