Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 657
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 summer poem.
For this week's prompt, write a summer poem. After all, today is the first day of summer (at least in the northern hemisphere). And if you need some inspiration, here are some of my favorite summer poems.
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 Summer Poem:
“two fawns,” by Robert Lee Brewer
two fawns watched from behind the fence
as the fireflies sparkled in the sky and bats
flew over our heads beneath the sliver of
moon smiling upon our little baseball game
in the backyard played with a plastic bat
and tennis balls and far off in the distance
we could see (but not hear) heat lightning
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.
