Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 622
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 story poem.
For this week's prompt, write a story poem. You can tell a story in your poem. Or write a persona poem from the perspective of a character in a popular story. Or focus in on an object or moment from a story. If you can think of another angle, go for it.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer's Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.
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Here’s my attempt at a Story Poem:
“in the beginning,” by Robert Lee Brewer
it was a dark
and stormy night
or perhaps
it was breezy
and a bit wistful
on a sunny day
or balmy morning
along the coast
waiting for her
to appear with
the money
or the children
or the happenstance
and anchovies
or sardines
or perhaps
we're getting
a little off track
and it was dark
and stormy and
night time
lightning strikes
and thunder shaking
the house
when a phone rang
and a babysitter
answered
and it was
a wrong number
from someone
looking for someone
who liked pina coladas
and getting caught
in the rain or dark
and stormy nights
or a nice beach read
but either way
the call made it
to the end

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.