Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 261
Whew! After poeming every day in April, it feels a little awkward going a whole week without a prompt and poem, doesn't it? But that's okay, we've still got Wednesdays!
For this week's prompt, take the phrase "The Boy Who (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Feel free to replace the word "boy" with "girl." Possible titles include: "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," "The Girl Who Knew Too Much," "The Boy Who Walked Into a Bar," and so on.
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Here's my attempt at a The Boy Who Blanks poem:
"The Boy Who Wrote a Poem"
Wrote another poem and another
until he filled notebooks with them,
stuffed them into his mattress
and pasted them on his walls.
Everywhere he turned his words
surrounded him until he could
no longer find the words to keep
the poems coming, and then,
he bought a new notebook.
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Robert Lee Brewer
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems. He has a bad habit of writing poems about writing poems when he's having trouble writing poems. Sooo...that pretty much explains today's poem.
Learn more at www.robertleebrewer.com.
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