Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 725
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a short poem.
For this week's prompt, write a short poem. Of course, the poem could be short (like 10 lines or fewer), but there are many other ways to explore a short poem. Some people have short tempers...or a short fuse. Other folks might be short on money. And yes, many things and people are short in terms of height. Take a short amount of time to pen your short poems 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 Short Poem:
“short on time,” by Robert Lee Brewer
a burning candle
has only one fate
if it intends to
shine in the darkness
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.
