2015 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 17
Time for another Two-for-Tuesday prompt. Here are your options: ***** Re-create Your Poetry! Revision doesn’t have to be a chore–something that should be done after the excitement of composing the…
Time for another Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
Here are your options:
- Take the phrase "Ode to a (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.
- Take the phrase "(blank) is for the Birds," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.
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Re-create Your Poetry!
Revision doesn’t have to be a chore–something that should be done after the excitement of composing the first draft. Rather, it’s an extension of the creation process!
In the 48-minute tutorial video Re-creating Poetry: How to Revise Poems, poets will be inspired with several ways to re-create their poems with the help of seven revision filters that they can turn to again and again.
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Here’s my attempt at an Ode to a Blank and/or Blank is for the Birds poem:
“Ode to a Complaint, or Missing is for the Birds”
-from Jesse Wilcox
This is getting a little ridiculous: lost, not found
by an entire town. Here I am, right under your
nose with a single rose held aloft for a toast
to my new master's plan, the hypnotic hand
of a foreign man. He found me at night in my
favorite haunt, himself looking fragile, frail,
and unfailingly gaunt. Sure, I was startled,
but he looked in need of help, so I offered
my hand and then emitted a yelp as he faster
than fast took hold with great strength and
flashed me teeth unusual in length before
sinking them in to the skin at my wrist
and he offered me life with an eternal kiss.
Now I am lost, but I'm lost in such bliss.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of the poetry collection, Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He edits Poet’s Market and Writer’s Market, in addition to writing a free weekly WritersMarket.com newsletter and a poetry column for Writer’s Digest magazine.
This is his eighth year of hosting and participating in the November PAD (Poem-A-Day) Chapbook Challenge. He can’t wait to see what everyone creates this month–not only on a day-by-day basis, but when the chapbooks start arriving in December and January. Fun, fun, fun.
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.
