Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 705
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a shifting poem.
For this week's prompt, write a shifting poem. Everything changes, and everything shifts. Tectonic plates, glaciers, people, situations. The world seems to be treating you a certain way one day, and then (for better or worse) everything shifts. Of course, totally fine if you want to write about the "shift" key on your keyboard or the process of shifting gears while driving.
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 Shifting Poem:
“digging a hole at the beach,” by Robert Lee Brewer
it's not as easy as it seems
because the shifting sands
ache to refill the emptiness
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.
