2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 21
Today marks three weeks! That’s pretty special, if you ask me. So let’s take our poeming to another level today (whatever that means). Also, I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned…
Today marks three weeks! That's pretty special, if you ask me. So let's take our poeming to another level today (whatever that means). Also, I can't remember if I've mentioned on here that my book, Solving the World's Problems, was reviewed recently by Wild Goose Poetry Review. Whether I have or not, click here to read the review.
For today's prompt, write a secret message poem. Maybe it's a coded message, a message in a bottle, sign language, foreign language, etc. Confession time: I'm often (though not always) hiding messages in my poems, and nothing rocks my world more than when readers catch them.
Here's my attempt at a Secret Message poem:
"Big Country"
When you look at me
and say the words,
no one understands
you except me;
no men at work, not
tonight. As our
children dream, we sing
ourselves asleep.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer's Digest Writing Community and a person who writes as much for his wife as for himself. Also, he's sure everyone wants to hear "In a Big Country," by Big Country, right? Or how about "Down Under," by Men At Work? Robert is the author of Solving the World's Problems and married to the amazing poet Tammy Foster Brewer, who helps him keep track of their five tiny poets (four boys and one princess). Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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Check out more poetic posts here:
- Shaindel Beers: Poet Interview. Great poet, great interview.
- Assembling and Submitting a Poetry Collection. My personal experiences.
- Cinquain: Poetic Forms. The simple five-liner.
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.
