Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 714
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an autumn poem.
For this week's prompt, write an autumn poem. Think about what autumn means to you and tap into that. Is it football games? Spooky stories? Falling leaves? Pumpkin-flavored (fill-in-the-blank)? Whether you like sweater weather or trunk-or-treating, poem your way into the season.
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 Autumn Poem:
“Equinox,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Each evening creeps closer to the day,
and the moon's no longer full, but my
mind is caught in this season's soft sway
without a care for reasoning why.
I see birds evacuating south,
but I have no plans to leave. My soul
is captured by the shape of your mouth
and every moment you let me hold
you close and dream of what is to come
within this fragile autumn desire
that weathers the low and ghostly hum
of the bummed summer departing choir.
Through every season know this is true:
My heart is always beating for you.
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.
