Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 738
Every Wednesday, poets from around the world can find a Wednesday Poetry Prompt at Writer’s Digest. This week, write a sleep poem.
For this week's prompt, write a sleep poem. Of course, poems that involve dreams would fall into this category as would poems about feeling sleepy and/or actually sleeping. Waking up poems would work. Also, poems that use sleep as a metaphor are fair game. Poem as you will.
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 Sleep Poem:
“blanket statements,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Wander with me through the streets
of excess thinking; I'm dreaming to
know when the world will start waking,
ending its sleep and taking seriously
all the unclothed rulers moving away
from the common sense we're seeing.
