Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 734
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a rant poem.
Before we jump into today's prompt, I just wanted to share that I announced the 18th annual April Poem-A-Day (PAD) Challenge earlier this week. It'll be here before we know it, and here are the guidelines.
For this week's prompt, write a rant poem. First off: Be kind and respectful to each other on here, but also, let it out. Everyone has something to rant about, even if it's just ranting about the way other people rant. So have at it.
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 Rant Poem:
“Daylight Saving Time,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Whether I spring forward
or fall back, I don't know
how to get enough sleep
to make changing my clock
at random somehow make
a lick of sense at all,
though I know I'll enjoy
the late evenings till fall.
Spring forward, fall back;
I fear someday I may
never get my hour back.
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.
