Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 703
For this week’s prompt, write a beach poem. The poem could take place at the beach or just give a beach-type feeling or be about The Beach Boys or, as is commonplace around these part, however you want to take it. Sand castles, sunburns, jellyfish, shells, and so on and so forth.
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 Beach Poem:
“Tale of the Beached Poet,” by Robert Lee Brewer
He washed ashore over night
hailing the moon and the stars,
but we grew weary of him
as he professed through the day
and found him easy to strap
to some random driftwood and
send back to the open sea.
Some evenings, if you listen,
you can hear his soft iambs
in the distance, like whale song
or some other simile
we dare not turn metaphor
nor feign comprehend, because
poems, in the end, are hard.