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Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 677

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an anxiety poem.

For this week's prompt, write an anxiety poem. One person's excitement is another's anxiety (and sometimes the same person can feel both at the same time). So think about anxiety and poem your way through it.

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 an Anxiety Poem:

“the dentist office,” by Robert Lee Brewer

rain drops splash puddles
around the boots of a man
who just can't enter

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