Wow! Some how, some way, we’re two thirds of the way through this month already.
For today’s prompt, write a dark poem. Cave poems, poems at night, and no electricity poems–these are all appropriate for today’s prompt. Of course, dark has several other connotations as well. An underdog is often known as a dark horse, a villain may have a dark heart, and Batman is known as the Dark Knight. Heck, when I was little, I thought Darth Vader was Dark Vader.
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Poem Your Days Away!
Online poetry prompts are great! But where can you get your poem fix when you unplug? The answer is the Smash Poetry Journal, by Robert Lee Brewer.
This book collects 125 poetry prompts from the Poetic Asides blog, gives poets plenty of room to write poems, and a lot of other great poetic information. Perfectly sized to carry in a backpack or purse, you can jot down ideas for poems as you’re waiting in line for a morning coffee or take it to the park for a breezy afternoon writing session (or on a bus, at a laundromat, or about anywhere else you can imagine–except under water, unless you’re in a submarine or a giant breathable plastic bubble).
Anyway, it’s great for prompting poems, and you should order a copy today. (Maybe order an extra one as a gift for a friend.)
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Here’s my attempt at a Dark Poem:
“taking pictures of a black hole”
i admit there are times i’m afraid of the dark
because of all the games my brain plays in the park
of my mind processing possible outcomes so
i fell i’m possessing an incredible ghost
or perhaps the spirit may be possessing me
& i’m the dark vessel through which the spirit sees
just as scientists can see the unseeable
i often fear i could be the unbeable
so if i tremble when i’m alone in the night
imagine a black hole consuming all the light
& know our heavenly bodies are made to end
by dissolving in space like a note never sent
& silence like darkness never ceases to breed
more feelings of longing & an unending need
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He enjoyed writing a sonnet today; find more poetic forms here. Follow him on Twitter @RobertLeeBrewer.
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