Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 157

Author:
Robert Lee Brewer
Publish date:
Dec 14, 2011

For those who participated in the haiku challenge over the weekend, I just want you to know the results are still coming. I'll make a post as soon as I'm able.

For this week's prompt, write a magical poem. There are many varieties of magic: good magic, black magic, Harry Potter magic, the magic within our hearts, magical realism, etc. Find a bit of magic and work it into a poem.

Here's my attempt:

"Substitiary Locomotion"

There are times I wish I could
conjure a spell to make my pen write,
my computer type, and my words
edit themselves while I sleep at night.

*****

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