Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 731
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a home poem.
For this week's prompt, write a home poem. A person could be going home, leaving home, or staying home. Some people say home is where the heart is, but others feel like they don't have a home. Still others thinking of stealing home in baseball or softball. So be sure to think about what home means to you and poem away.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Home Poem:
“The Street,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Every Wednesday, we all return
to then break our lines together.
In spite of how the world might burn,
every Wednesday, we all return
home to poems for which we yearn
for we're all birds of a feather,
and every Wednesday, we all return
to break all our lines together.
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.
