2015 April PAD Challenge: Day 22
Way to go, everyone! I know it’s impossible to comment on everyone’s poem during this challenge, but remember that a few kind words here and there can help your fellow…
Way to go, everyone! I know it's impossible to comment on everyone's poem during this challenge, but remember that a few kind words here and there can help your fellow poets keep at it during this final week or so of the challenge. Keep at poeming!
For today's prompt, write a nature poem. For many poets, the first thing that may pop to mind includes birds, trees, waterfalls, rivers, and such. But there's also human nature, nature vs. nurture, and other things natural, including natural selection and being a "natural" at something. Let your nature take it where it will today.
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Here's my attempt at a Nature Poem:
"nature strikes back"
it began near the end of winter
high & low pressure systems setting
off a series of mighty migraines
& then i was attacked by pollen
yellow coating every surface &
my throat & triggering my migraines
soon it will be the mosquitoes &
bees & a small strand of poison ivy
don't tell me that nature can't fight back
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Today's guest judge is...
Justin Marks
Justin Marks’ books are You’re Going to Miss Me When You’re Bored (Barrelhouse Books) and A Million in Prizes (New Issues).
His latest chapbook is We Used to Have Parties (Dikembe Press).
He is a co-founder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press, and lives in Queens, NY with his wife and their twin son and daughter.
Learn more at JustinMarks.net.
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Poem Your Heart Out again!
The prompts from last year’s challenge along with the winning poem from each day ended up in an inspired little anthology titled Poem Your Heart Out. It was part prompt book, part poetry anthology, and part workbook, because each day includes a few pages for you to make your own contributions.
Anyway, the anthology worked out so well that we’re doing it again this year, and you can take advantage of a 20% discount from Words Dance by pre-ordering before May 1, 2015.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems.
Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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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.
