Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 712
For this week’s prompt, write a rally poem. Fans of baseball know that wearing a rally cap will turn around your team’s fortunes, but rallies can also be held for political events, car races, and more. Let’s all rally around this prompt and do some serious poeming this week.
(Note: If a rally poem is too specific, write a poem about an event. Or write a comeback poem. Or perhaps a battle of some sort, whether related to the military, sports, or some other endeavor.)
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 Rally Poem:
“The Music Festival,” by Robert Lee Brewer
We gathered in the field & sang
songs from morning until the night.
As off in the distance bells rang,
we gathered in the field & sang
& danced & chanted the new slang.
With no concern for wrong or right,
we gathered in the field & sang
songs from morning into the night.