Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 624
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 refrain poem.
For this week's prompt, write a poem with a refrain. The refrain could be entire lines (like in a triolet or villanelle), or it could be a repeated word, phrase, or image. Heck, song lyrics with a chorus refrain would do the trick even (or a sestina anyone?).
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 Refrain Poem:
“breaking up at the high,” by Robert Lee Brewer
refrain, she said, from breaking my heart
in such a public place as this space
made for abstract interpretation
mais non, he said, c'est impossible
c'est la vie in such a special space
made for abstract interpretation
refrain, she said, but he said, mais non
