Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 655
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 click bait title poem.
For this week's prompt, give your poem a click bait title and then write your poem. A few examples of what a click bait title might be include the following:
- This Person Picked a Daisy, and You'll Never Believe What Happened Next
- They Told Her She Couldn't, but Then She Did This
- This Weird Trick Helped Him Lose Weight and Eat More Food Than Ever
- Poet Stepped Up to the Open Mic, Then the Unthinkable Happened
So create your own click bait title, or lift one that already exists, and then, write your poem.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
Note on commenting: If you wish to comment on the site, go to Disqus to create a free new account, verify your account on this site below (one-time thing), and then comment away. It's free, easy, and the comments (for the most part) don't require manual approval (though I check from time to time for those that do).
*****
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.
*****
Here’s my attempt at a Click Bait Title Poem:
“the last poem you'll ever need,” by Robert Lee Brewer
i buried it in the forest
beyond the pine trees
& lost the map so you
have no choice but to
dig around for the words
& line breaks & et cetera
through the days & nights
as the earth spins & angles
& orbits the sun like an angel
filled with a fire that never ends
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.
