2025 April PAD Challenge: Day 23
For Day 23 of the 2025 April Poem-A-Day Challenge, poets (and other bookish types) are tasked with writing a book poem.
I can't believe how fast we're breezing through this month. One week of poeming after today!
For today's prompt, write a book poem. Today is World Book Day, which may be one of my favorite holidays moving forward, because I love books. Your poem could be inspired by a book, an author, a character, a scene, and/or however you'd like to come at this one. Heck, write about a bookstore, library, card catalogue, or any other bookish thing you can imagine.
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 Book Poem:
“Ode to Bookmarks,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Whether you were made for the job
or a mere stand-in (a receipt,
Post-It, or dollar bill), you throb
with the import of your conceit--
for you not only keep those who
read from living out their worst fear
of losing their last spot, but you
also protect books from dog-ears;
so hand me a scrap of paper
or some abandoned business card,
though the ends may fray and taper,
you'll find it bookmarks just as hard
silently keeping every page;
o bookmark, you are all the rage!
