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.
