Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 767
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a worship poem.
It's time for the final prompt of 2025!
For this week's prompt, write a worship poem. Some people think of organized religions when they think of worship, but people worship many things beyond gods, including money, fame, power, knowledge, and their own reflections. Someone somewhere probably even worships editors and poets. And some people may worship nothing. In all cases, there is likely a poem to be found.
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 Worship Poem:
“Praise the Final Day,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Praise the final day
that leads to the first
of many more days
to someday follow:
May it bend itself
like infinity
into a figure
eight forever and
may we follow it
day by day to where
ever this life lets
it someday lead us
for it will lead us
wherever it may.
