Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 666
For this week’s prompt, write an evil poem. Some people may debate whether good and evil even exists, but let’s assume evil is a real thing this week. After all, we’ve been working our way (one Wednesday at a time) toward this number for 15 years now. Let’s make it count before we move past it next 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 an Evil Poem:
“bleach,” by Robert Lee Brewer
alone he peers into the shadows
looking for the evil that follows
& then when he finds it he swallows
the spirits of the long lost hollows