Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 668
For this week’s prompt, write a flashback poem. Maybe you remember something that happened in the distant past. Maybe you write about the 70s, 80s, or 90s. And, of course, it’s possible that your flashback is as recent as earlier this morning (or yesterday).
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 Flashback Poem:
“december boys,” by Robert Lee Brewer
forget-me-nots lined in a row
can’t say a thing i want to hear
after all they’re all just for show
forget-me-nots lined in a row
& in the end i’ll never know
what it was that you held most dear
forget-me-nots lined in a row
never say what i want to hear