2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 19
Today is a “Two for Tuesday” prompt. In fact, it’s the one that I include in every challenge. Old hands knew this one was coming sooner or later. Here are…
Today is a "Two for Tuesday" prompt. In fact, it's the one that I include in every challenge. Old hands knew this one was coming sooner or later. Here are your two options:
- Write a love poem. Romantic or more general types of love. Or...
- Write an anti-love poem. Some folks just don't like love poems of any type, so have at it.
Here's my attempt at a love and/or anti-love poem:
"New York City"
I walk from Times Square
to Central Park
and sit on the rocks,
watch children play
and their parents talk
while lovers walk
to a perfect spot
of hot sun light
catching the entire
city on fire.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer's Digest Writing Community and another one of those poets who loves the anonymity of New York City. He loves flying into LaGuardia Airport and seeing the Statue of Liberty and tall buildings of Manhattan. He even enjoys riding the bus to the train and taking that into the city. It's not uncommon for him to wander off to Central Park and watch the runners doing laps, children playing, and people lounging. If you spot him, he'll probably have his notebook out--doodling or writing. Robert is the author of Solving the World's Problems, which is filled with love poems, and husband of the poet Tammy Foster Brewer, who once met him in NYC while they were "courting." Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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Check out a couple poetic posts here:
- 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 18. Yesterday's amazing prompt.
- Thomas Lux: Poet Interview. Q&A with a great Atlanta poet.
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.
