2011 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 27
For today’s prompt, write a tribute poem. Write your tribute poem for anyone or anything you like–Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Harry Potter, etc. Have fun! Here’s my attempt: “Poets” For…
For today's prompt, write a tribute poem. Write your tribute poem for anyone or anything you like--Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Harry Potter, etc. Have fun!
Here's my attempt:
"Poets"
For those about to poem, we salute you
with line breaks & ampersands & traditional
forms & free verse & whatever else we can
throw your way. If you will or if you won't, drop rhymes
or don't. Write it in prose if you must. Just write
in the morning & poem all night. Just poem
to the left & break lines on the right, & if
someone tells you what to do, go on & listen
but poem too. It's your right & my right too.
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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.
