Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 770
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a food poem.
For this week's prompt, write a food poem. The poem could be about eating food, preparing food, serving food, avoiding food, or searching for food. It could be an ode to a favorite dish or merely feature food as a side character in a poem about something else entirely.
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 Food Poem:
“School Days,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Most mornings, I feed the kids
then the cats, who follow me
like little lost sheep who mew
until I fill their small bowls
with something good. The children
then get themselves ready for
school as the cats both arrange
themselves in the living room
like contented deities
as I pack lunches before
they send me and the kids off
to our morning adventures.
