2025 April PAD Challenge: Day 20
For Day 20 of the 2025 April Poem-A-Day Challenge, poets (and other active line breakers) are tasked with writing a rest poem.
Happy Easter! I hope everyone has a basket full of line breaks today!
For today's prompt, write a rest poem. In this part of the country anyway, there are restrooms and rest areas. And for some the weekend is a time of rest and relaxation. But there is also the rest of interpretations of rest (like the rest of the way, rest of the water, or rest of the poems). Also, if someone wants to turn "rest" into "wrest," I won't wrestle them over it. Have fun and poem before or after resting today!
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Rest Poem:
“for the wicked,” by Robert Lee Brewer
give praise for grace
& better angels
due process
& the benefit
of so many doubts.
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
