Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 777
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a jackpot poem.
For this week's prompt, write a jackpot poem. What is your idea of hitting the jackpot? Winning at life? Living the dream? Think about it, and then, write it. Could be about hitting the jackpot yourself, or maybe some fictional character.
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 Jackpot Poem:
“Number Theory,” by Robert Lee Brewer
There are a couple lines of thought
when it comes to the lottery:
One, the more times you play the more
times you might win. So if you lose,
it pays to try, try again. But
there's a second theory that claims
you have the same chance at winning
each and every time you try, which
means you have the same odds losing.
Since I've lost more than once, I know
I'm going to lose before I
buy the ticket, but I buy it
anyway, because I'm really
just buying a ticket to dream
between purchasing the ticket
and knowing the results, and dreams
are no small thing to keep alive.
