Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 732
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a math poem.
For this week's prompt, write a math poem. If you dislike math, no problem: Write an anti-math poem. If you love math, then have it. Write about addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentials, and so on. Or write about mathematicians. Or just drop a number or two into your poem that's kind of not about math at all. It's your poem, after all.
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 Math Poem:
“Equations,” by Robert Lee Brewer
When I was young, I dreamed I'd be
a great mathematician figuring out
the underlying code of the universe,
or, at least, your heart covered in shells,
and I wonder--sometimes--if I'm AI:
the repetitive nature of my dialogue
and my diatribes and the dye of my
soul was cast long before even I
can remember, but here I am still
wondering if maybe in the future
I'll be the one to solve every problem
that separates your attention from me.
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.
