Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 689
Save the date! On the morning of April 1, we’ll be starting up the 17th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge. Get the guidelines here.
For this week’s prompt, write a saving poem. My initial inspiration was Daylight Savings Time coming up this weekend, but people can also save lives, save money, save space, and a variety of other things. Save a moment to write your own saving poem this week.
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 Saving Poem:
“Save Tomorrow,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Today isn’t finished with me
quite yet. I feel it tugging
my sleeve, whispering secret
poems I still have to write
in flickering candle light
as the birds all fall asleep
with the songs their silence keeps.