Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 636
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 new blank poem.
For this week's prompt, take the phrase "New (blank)," replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "New Year," "New Winter," "New Poetry Prompt," and/or "New Life in New Hampshire."
And let me wish everyone an early and very happy new year!
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 New Blank Poem:
“new word,” by Robert Lee Brewer
some people say shakespeare coined
more than fifteen-hundred words,
but he didn't really invent them so much
as he shared the language of his times,
and yes, of course, he created a word
or three along the way and changed
the way people used those words,
and i think it would be incredible to make
only one new word, regardless of how many
syllables it contained, just one singular
word, and to be, for a moment, or not
to be, a mere fraction of shakespeare.
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.
