Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 663
For this week’s prompt, take the phrase “Back to (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: “Back to Basics,” “Back to the Drawing Board,” “Back to School,” and/or “Back to Back.”
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 Back to Blank Poem:
“back to doom scrolling,” by Robert Lee Brewer
it begins so innocently
with liking a nice post
clicking an interesting
link on an experiment
& then the comments
lead one direction &
then another until
the world is engulfed
in flames & spiraling
across the event horizon
of the soul into the
black hole of the heart
where my fingers stop
for nothing & no one