Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 647
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 stolen moment poem.
For this week's prompt, write a stolen moment poem. A month ago, I had folks write a lost moment poem, which is a moment taken from you. But this time around, you (or your narrator or someone you're writing about) will be the one taking a moment to have a moment.
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 Stolen Moment Poem:
“roses,” by Robert Lee Brewer
there are moments when
i will just pull over to the side
& inhale & exhale & exclaim
what a wonderful world i live in
except the exclamation resides
in my head but still i pull over
& think my god what a life
to be able to live & have
a chance to appreciate it
