Gavin Bennett's Blog: Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 369

For today’s prompt, write a pattern poem. Yes, this is based off today’s prompt number: 3-6-9; the next number would be 12, right? So yeah, there are number patterns, but also patterns in how people act and re-act to situations, patterns in animal behavior, and even weather patterns (I’m sure my meteorologist/storm chasing brother appreciates me mentioning the weather in one of my prompts). Whatever pattern you follow, I hope you have fun.

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Here’s my attempt at a Pattern poem:

“Patterns”

I love to sit back and look for patterns
in certain types of tile and wallpaper
as if pursuing a long forgotten
or perhaps never discovered cavern.

When the narrator in Charlotte Perkins
Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper”
sees and helps the woman shake the pattern
from the wall, I wonder if it’s the end,

or signifies it is time to begin.

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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). One of his all-time favorite short stories is “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Follow him on Twitter @RobertLeeBrewer.

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