2025 April PAD Challenge: Day 22
On the 22nd day of the 2025 April Poem-A-Day Challenge, writers are challenged with the fourth Two-for-Tuesday prompt of the month.
It's time for the fourth (but not final) Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
- Write a tell me poem and/or...
- Write a don't tell me poem.
You get to decide what that means; you might even tell me in your poem.
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 Tell Me and/or Don't Tell Me Poem:
“Tell the Tale,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Tell me something I haven't heard before--
true or false, as long as it won't bore me
into a slumber on a summer day
when a subtle breeze might blow me away
to Savannah, Charleston, or New Orleans,
wherever ghost stories find they're adored.
