2016 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 27
For today’s prompt, write a falling apart poem. The poem could be about a crumbling house, tree losing its leaves, or a car that’s breaking down. Of course, people break…
For today’s prompt, write a falling apart poem. The poem could be about a crumbling house, tree losing its leaves, or a car that's breaking down. Of course, people break down and fall apart all the time--in both large and small ways.
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Here’s my attempt at a Falling Apart poem:
“When People Ask”
He's quick to say he's doing fine,
because he doesn't want to talk
about himself, especially when
it's about how he feels, because
one question always leads to
another question, and the last
thing he wants to do is answer
questions about how he's not
holding it together as well as
he'd like, because they always
have advice and tips and that's
not helpful at all, because he
wants--no, he needs--nothing
more than a person to listen
without feedback or questions
when his world's falling apart.
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Find more poetic goodies here:
- WD Poetic Form Challenge: Trimeric. (Deadline: 11/30/16.)
- Rimas Dissolutas: Poetic Form.
- Bryan Borland: Poet Interview.
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.
