Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 752

Every Wednesday, poets from around the world can find a Wednesday Poetry Prompt at Writer’s Digest. This week, write a meeting poem.

For this week's prompt, write a meeting poem. The meeting could be a business meeting, meeting of the minds, moonlight tryst, or something larger (like a rock concert or comic convention). Maybe it's a planned meeting or a chance encounter. It could be the first time, the last time, or somewhere in between.

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 Meeting Poem:

“softball parents,” by Robert Lee Brewer

once again, we clang along the bleachers
to our familiar seats on the hot metal
as our girls put their bags in the dugout

before running laps and stretching, and
we ask how the day's going, maybe say
something about the weather, our busy

schedules, and so on, all while watching
our girls swing their bats, field their balls,
and giving their all as we cheer them on.

Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of Solving the World's Problems, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.