Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 646
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 “Blank Like Nobody’s Watching” poem.
ICYMI, I made the official announcement for the 16th Annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge. Hope you're ready to poem...daily...in April.
For this week's prompt, take the phrase "(blank) Like Nobody's Watching," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "Dance Like Nobody's Watching," "Work Like Nobody's Watching," "Sing Like Nobody's Watching," and/or "Poem Like Nobody's Watching."
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 Blank Like Nobody's Watching Poem:
“watch like nobody's watching,” by Robert Lee Brewer
the paint dries whether
you watch it or don't
the earth orbits the sun
& the moon moves
ever so slightly away
& over time that alone
will lead to something
as the paint dries
& the earth orbits
& the sun shines
over everything
& everyone
