Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 708
My two youngest kids started school back up last week, and the change in routine appears to have had a major impact on my writing, because I've been cranking out poem after poem the past week. I've got an excess of material to go through (whenever my writing pace slows back down). And so...
For this week's prompt, write an excess poem. Maybe the poem is super long or uses excessive alliteration or similes. Maybe the poem looks at excess in contemporary culture or the historical excess of some kings and queens.
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 an Excess Poem:
“spirit of the stairs,” by Robert Lee Brewer
the words that run through me
(my body & soul) could now fill
a sacred tome, but the moment
has passed (& though my feelings
have not, there is nothing to say).
they burn hot, but they are not
worth all the oxygen to tell
(for the key moment has passed)
& i know there's no going back
to fix conversational lack.
