Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 772
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a prediction poem.
Before we get started, I just want to share a daily writing challenge for the month of February: Moriah Richard's February Flash Fiction Challenge here. I've done it a few times in the past (this year is the 4th annual challenge), and it's a lot of fun.
For this week's prompt, write a prediction poem. This prompt may or may not be inspired by Groundhog Day (OK, it's definitely inspired by Groundhog Day), but predictions are a big part of daily life for many people, whether it's related to predicting the weather, the amount of money on their next paycheck, winners of big football games (or the Olympic events), and so on. For instance, I predict there will be many new 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 Prediction Poem:
“Groundhog Day,” by Robert Lee Brewer
& so we gather in the darkness
of these early morning hours to wait
for the shadow seeker to emerge
from their abode to choose winter or
spring though definitely nothing else
in between as the cold air hovers
close to the ground like a stunned marmot
& i make this prognostication
that we may or may not be happy
their choice but we'll still return again
