Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 613
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write a dad poem.
Last month, we wrote a mom poem for Mother's Day; so this month, with Father's Day upon us...
Let's write a dad poem. While not everyone gets (or even wants) to be a dad, everyone has a dad. On gift card holidays like this coming Sunday, the father is celebrated. That said, not everyone knows their dad, and some wish they did not. For many, whether they get along or not, the relationship can be very complicated. So explore that experience today.
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 Dad Poem:
“Fatherhood,” by Robert Lee Brewer
When I sit down with a really nice journal,
I don't want to write in it, especially with ink,
because I'd hate to ruin something so precious,
so I sit and rack my mind for the perfect thing
to communicate (all the while doing nothing,
because I want what I do to be perfect) and then,
when I finally have it (so much time has passed),
I realize that someone has taken the journal
and scribbled all over it in any way that they
wished and that there's no longer any space
for me to make even the simplest of marks.
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 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, 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.
