Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 700

For this week’s prompt, write a special day poem. For instance, many people and businesses (including Writer’s Digest) in the United States observe Juneteenth today (on June 19) to recognize the end of slavery. It’s a special day for many people. But many people also have special days unique to them (like birthdays and anniversaries).

Speaking of anniversaries, today marks the 700th Wednesday Poetry Prompt, which is just incredible to me. I’ve only got 300 more Wednesdays to figure out what to do after 999 (do I go to 1000 or reset the counter at 000?).

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 Special Day Poem:

“Father’s Day,” by Robert Lee Brewer

In Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner’s character
has a strained relationship with his father,
because his dad wanted him to play baseball.

You’ve got to laugh to keep from crying sometimes,
I guess, because I can’t imagine something
like that causing a son to avoid his dad.

But maybe. I don’t talk to my father, but
it’s not about baseball. It’s not about much
that’s polite to talk about in public, and

I don’t think building a baseball field in a
corn field would repair the damage. I don’t think
building anything would repair the damage.

But that’s what I think about on Father’s Day
when I think about my father, and I hope
to do better with my kids, baseball or no.