Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 629

For this week's prompt, write an avoidance poem. People can avoid a multitude of things and situations. They avoid work, responsibility, people, arguments, trouble, danger, food, places, and so on. Some oddly enough even avoid poets and poetry. But I hope you won't avoid this chance to write about avoidance.

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 an Avoidance Poem:

“The Heart of Writing in Meter,” by Robert Lee Brewer

Every afternoon, I find,
I've found I have another mind
about resolutions for the day
that didn't quite work out all the way
I thought they would the previous night
when everything seems doable and alright,
so every afternoon, yes, it's true,
I avoid finding the beat of you.

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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.