Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 710
For this week’s prompt, write a responsible poem. Many people have different interpretations of what’s responsible or irresponsible, so I won’t attempt to (responsibly?) put guardrails around this one. I’ll let each poet be responsible for their own poeming this week.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Responsible Poem:
“Children,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Please don’t feel responsible
for the open door;
the sun beckoned you outside
with reckless abandon
and soon after you
the cat and dog followed
in their own means and ways
and when I found you spread out
on that quilted blanket
the last thing I worried over
was that door left open,
because an open door
is a portal to another space and time,
and it’s hard to control everything,
especially that tug outside,
and anyway,
we’ll get all the bugs out of the house
eventually.