Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 783

For this week's prompt, write a rules poem. Your poem could lay out the rules the reader must follow, or go about breaking the rules. Maybe there are no rules, or maybe you make them up as you go along. Keep in mind that while some people think rules are a bad thing, they can actually be a force for good as well.

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

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Here’s my attempt at a Rules Poem:

“x rules for falling in love,” by Robert Lee Brewer

first of course you have to fall
like an apple from a tree or an
astronaut from space fall like
a helicopter seed from a maple
fall like a glass that will shatter
across the floor that will draw
blood upon contact fall without
contact fall without gravity &
second you just keep falling

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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of Solving the World's Problems, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.