Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 617

For this week's prompt, let's write a confinement poem. Recently, I had to quarantine because of testing positive for COVID, but there are many other possibilities for confinement: Being grounded, serving a prison sentence, or writing about an animal in a cage. Of course, there are many other interpretations of confinement, so I don't expect you to confine your creativity to my few confining examples.

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 Confinement Poem:

“boxed in,” by Robert Lee Brewer

i used to think outside the box
but then i got vertigo
so i climbed into the box
and now there's nowhere to go

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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.