2010 April PAD Challenge: Day 23
For today’s prompt, write an exhausted poem. The poem can be a first person account of your own exhaustion, or it can describe the exhaustion of someone (or something) else….
For today's prompt, write an exhausted poem. The poem can be a first person account of your own exhaustion, or it can describe the exhaustion of someone (or something) else. Heck, I guess it even could be about exhaust, huh?
Here's my attempt for the day:
"Baby bedtime"
When Ben got tired, he'd run
through the house until he
collapsed on the floor. I'd hear
a thump and know he was out.
When Jonah got sleepy, he'd
find a corner and start crying,
and there was nothing you could
do until he fell into a silent slumber.
Will rubs his face, sucks his thumb,
and curls up on his blanket before
closing his eyes. When he's out
he's out; that's how they all are.
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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.
