Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 642
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 love poem.
For this week's prompt, write a love poem. With Valentine's Day just around the corner, romantic love poems make a lot of sense, and yes, feel encouraged to write those if you feel so inclined. But love is more complicated than that. There's also love between family, friends, and a universal love.
Love can be happy, sad, mad, apathetic, and so on. Write your "love" poem in whatever fashion you wish today.
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 Love Poem:
“outside the service,” by Robert Lee Brewer
we sit on a bench
& don't say a word,
because we both feel
the same loss, the same
breath is pulled from us
as we remember
the way he could tell
a joke and a lie
and neither of us
wants to face a world
without either truth,
a world without his
voice calling to us.
(Note about love poems: Here's my personal list of the best love poems ever.)
