Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 771
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a confusion poem.
Quick note for anyone who's interested, I've recently started sharing Get Started Right Writing Tasks on Monday mornings that are applicable for writers of all genres. If you're interested, check out the first one from last week here, and the second one from this week here.
For this week's prompt, write a confusion poem. This poem could be about your own confusion, sure, but maybe the confusion of others. Confused? Well, you're in a pretty good spot then. And if you're not confused, then you probably have some possible ideas for this one. So that's not a bad place either.
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 Confusion Poem:
“Confucius,” by Robert Lee Brewer
when i was young i knew everything
& the more i learned the less i knew
so as i continue learning things
what's a know-it-all supposed to do
should i keep on learning new things
that may be false unless they're true
or should i go back over things
that i thought i already knew
