Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 648
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 spring poem.
For this week's prompt, write a spring poem. Though it may not have felt like it in many places, we did mark the first day of spring on Monday in the Northern Hemisphere. So let's write poems about birds chirping, bees buzzing, and flowers blooming. Or perhaps, write poems about the springs inside a grandfather clock or a twin-size mattress.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Spring Poem:
“watching the vault,” by Robert Lee Brewer
few things catch my breath the same
as a gymnast in full sprint
their arms & legs pumping flames
before hurdling on the spring
board & launching to the vault
both hands smacking the table
to enable the twists caught
in mid-air without cables
my breath caught where i'm standing
hoping they'll stick their landing
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.
