Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 673
Earlier this week, I announced the 16th annual November Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge. I hope you’re ready to poem each and every day of November. Check out the guidelines for this fun and free challenge here.
For this week’s prompt, take the phrase “The (blank),” replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: “The Beginning,” “The End,” “The Month of October,” and/or “The Poem That You Are Currently Reading When You Should Be Doing the Dishes.”
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 The Blank Poem:
“the last thing you said,” by Robert Lee Brewer
to me
i’m sorry
has eluded me
all evening
& now
i’m unsure
whether i was
supposed to do the dishes
or fold the laundry
or both
or perhaps
just come upstairs
& go to bed