Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 724
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a fresh start poem.
Happy New Year!
For this week's prompt, write a fresh start poem. Today is the first day of 2025, so the year is a clean slate. But you don't have to write a 2025 poem; fresh starts can be made anywhere and in many different situations. Every new container opened, new candle lit, promise made, etc. There are so many fresh start opportunities to be had.
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 Fresh Start Poem:
“Exchanging Words,” by Robert Lee Brewer
The door slam echoes down the hallway
and wakes him from his trance, his fists
clenched, his chest heaving with each
breath, and he realizes he must inhale
deeply and let it go: unclench his fists,
relax his jaw, take another deep breath,
let it out, and give a little space to reset.
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.
