Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 650
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 meanwhile poem.
Who's ready to get back to poeming each week? It's always weird going from weekly to daily and daily to weekly (kind of like daylight savings time), but I find it's often healthy (both from a writing and mental health perspective) to change up the pace from time to time. So let's get back in a weekly rhythm...
For this week's prompt, write a meanwhile poem. As in somebody's doing something in one place, and meanwhile, something else is happening elsewhere. For instance, I'm putting together a poetry prompt; meanwhile, my neighbor is mowing their lawn; and meanwhile, somebody else is paying for their groceries; and so on and so forth.
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 Meanwhile Poem:
“as i mow my lawn,” by Robert Lee Brewer
an angry robin chirps at me
walking this way and that beneath
its nest hidden out of my reach
