Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 720
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an undiscovered poem.
Wow! It feels so long since our last Wednesday Poetry Prompt (almost like another time and place), but it's only been a little over a month. So weird how time works at times.
For this week's prompt, write an undiscovered poem. Your poem could be about discovering a previously undiscovered photograph, diary, video, hidden room, painting, etc. Or it could be an imagined "undiscovered" poem. Or maybe a real undiscovered poem, since we're finding them all together with this prompt.
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 an Undiscovered Poem:
“or less,” by Robert Lee Brewer
the older i get the more
i realize how hard it is
to find those undiscovered
moments to feel more
than just alive on this rock
orbiting a giant ball of gas
so let's get lost together
in these undiscovered
moments to find more
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.
