Gavin Bennett's Blog: Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 390

Last Wednesday prompt before April’s poem-a-day challenge. Hope to see y’all here bright and early each day beginning on Saturday morning.

For today’s prompt, pick a music genre, make that the title of your poem, and then write a poem. So your poem could be titled “Jazz;” “Baby, I got the blues;” “Heavy Metal Heartache;” “Rockabilly Rumble;” or whatever else you can devise. Have fun with it and see you on Saturday!

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Re-create Your Poetry!

Revision doesn’t have to be a chore–something that should be done after the excitement of composing the first draft. Rather, it’s an extension of the creation process!

In the 48-minute tutorial video Re-creating Poetry: How to Revise Poems, poets will be inspired with several ways to re-create their poems with the help of seven revision filters that they can turn to again and again.

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Here’s my attempt at a Music Genre Poem:

“i love pop”

sweet as soda
with a beat that drops
baby i love
listening to pop

whether 80s
disco or dubstep
something ’bout it
gives my life more pep

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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 he loves all genres of music: hip hop, rap, metal, modern rock, rockabilly, alternative, various forms of electronica, classic country, classical, blues, bluegrass, and so many other genres, including pop music.

Follow him on Twitter @RobertLeeBrewer.

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