Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 746
Every Wednesday, poets from around the world can find a Wednesday Poetry Prompt at Writer’s Digest. This week, write an abandoned poem.
For this week's prompt, write an abandoned poem. I've abandoned many poems over the years, but I've also written many poems with abandon. Some people abandon ideas, interests, hope, and despair. Other people have abandoned relationships, hometowns, and so many other people, places, and things. Many people abandon their homes throughout the year to take vacations (so don't forget that it's sometimes possible to return to the things we briefly abandon).
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 an Abandoned Poem:
“perfect,” by Robert Lee Brewer
each evening, i admit i can't
be perfect; i find that i must
abandon that ideal; but then,
i abandon my sound logic
each morning, imagining i
can be something impossible.
