Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 706
For this week’s prompt, write a movie trailer poem. This prompt was inspired by this exceptional post about lessons learned from working on movie trailers. I figured if movie trailers can be instructional for writing fiction, why can’t they also inspire poems? So whether your poem is a big budget blockbuster or an indie art flick, have fun poeming 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 Movie Trailer Poem:
“McDonald Crossing,” by Robert Lee Brewer
In a world without yacht rock,
two men search for a sound
they feel should exist but does not
and along the way find out
what they really don’t know anymore
has them riding like the wind
across time and space until
they’re caught at McDonald Crossing.