Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 632
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 creepy poem.
Today's our final Wednesday Poetry Prompt until December. Beginning on Tuesday (11/1), I hope you'll join me for this year's November Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge.
For this week's prompt, write a creepy poem. It's that time of year to think of the creepiest things and write them out. Perhaps you'll pen a new urban legend in verse. Or maybe you'll make a free verse monstrosity. Poem if you dare!
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 Creepy Poem:
“the stakes,” by Robert Lee Brewer
in the night beneath a full moon,
there's an autumn fire burning bright
with wondrous words to make you swoon.
in the night, beneath a full moon,
a shadow fades away too soon
beneath the sun's reflected light.
in the night beneath a full moon,
autumn's on fire and burning bright.
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.
