Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 725

For this week’s prompt, write a short poem. Of course, the poem could be short (like 10 lines or fewer), but there are many other ways to explore a short poem. Some people have short tempers…or a short fuse. Other folks might be short on money. And yes, many things and people are short in terms of height. Take a short amount of time to pen your short poems this week.

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 Short Poem:

“short on time,” by Robert Lee Brewer

a burning candle
has only one fate
if it intends to
shine in the darkness