Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 728
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.
For this week's prompt, write a friend poem. Your friend poem could be about a friend, dedicated to a friend, explore friendship in general terms, discuss how hard (or easy) it is to make friends, and so on. Let's get friendly 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 Friend Poem:
“five years,” by Robert Lee Brewer
& just like that
one solitary sentence
walked through the room
& ended the argument
& the friendship
after five years
of hanging & talking
& bending with the wind
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.
