Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 716

If you didn’t catch it earlier, I shared the guidelines for the 2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge recently. Click here to learn more.

For this week’s prompt, write a tele(blank) poem. That is, write a poem that plays off a word that includes the “tele-” prefix. So a few possible terms include: telephone, television, telecommunications, telegraph, telekinesis, teleology, and telematics. But I’m sure there’s more tele-possibilities out there to explore.

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 Tele(blank) Poem:

“Telefrancais!,” by Robert Lee Brewer

At times, I feel it had to be a dream:
a French-speaking pineapple, Ananas,
and that song I can’t quite quit from my head.

(Note on this poem: My high school French teacher never spoke English, in class or the hallways, and he loved having us learn by watching Telefrancais! Click here to watch the first episode.)