Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 758
Every Wednesday, poets from around the world can find a Wednesday Poetry Prompt at Writer’s Digest. This week, write a tucked away poem.
For this week's prompt, write a tucked away poem. So what's a tucked away poem? It could be a poem about a physical object that you've tucked away—like an old letter from a loved one, a varsity jacket or graduation ring, or maybe a VHS or 8mm home video. Or maybe you've tucked away an idea or a dream (or a feeling). Or maybe you've actually tucked away an old poem that you'd like to completely revisit. Untuck it all and write some poems this week.
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 Tucked Away Poem:
“The Car Keys,” by Robert Lee Brewer
The problem is, you see, that when
I tuck something away, I find
myself forgetting it, and then,
it is upsetting when my mind
can't recall the original
thought at all, though often so close
it feels more than subliminal,
almost like a ghost, but I chose
to be haunted by moving it
in the first place, so then, I race
on out-of-sight-out-of-mind trails
stumbling on the roots of where it
could maybe be before my face,
always running late for my fails.
