Gavin Bennett's Blog: Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 375

For today’s prompt, write a reflection poem. This poem could be about a physical reflection (or lack of reflection if you’re talking vampires). But poems that deal with reflections as thoughts work too. In fact, any creative interpretation of reflection or reflective surfaces will be accepted.

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Here’s my attempt at a Reflection poem:

“Reflection on Reflections”

sometimes i neglect to reflect
on the good times that i have had

just as i neglect to reflect
on the bad times that i have had

& though some times have been real bad
& though some times have been real sad

i have had moments that weren’t bad
& other moments that weren’t sad

which is why it’s good to reflect
on times that were nearly perfect

& on times that were imperfect
because i find when i reflect

there’s less chance for me to neglect
the good & bad times i have had.

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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). And no, he’s not sure about the poem he just wrote, but it was still fun to write.

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