Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 760
Every Wednesday, poets from around the world can find a Wednesday Poetry Prompt at Writer’s Digest. This week, write an interesting word poem.
For this week's prompt, pick an interesting word (just one word), make it the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Everyone surely has their own list of words they find interesting, either because they sound silly, scary, mysterious, weird, or you just like the way they sound. A few I can think of off the top of my head include "humdinger," "spatula," "chifforobe," and "amethyst." So pick a word and write a poem.
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 an Interesting Word Poem:
“Picaresque,” by Robert Lee Brewer
In some lonely alleyway in London or Malibu
waits a roguish lad of maybe twenty-two
who's up to no good, a true ne'er-do-well,
always breaking or taking as if under a spell,
and if he wasn't, he wouldn't know what to do.
