2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 24
For the 2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Today’s prompt is to write a Dialogue Poem.
For the 2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Today's prompt is to write a Dialogue Poem.
For today's prompt, write a poem with dialogue. He said, he said. She said, she said. He said, she said. And so on. Poems with dialogue don't happen every day, but we're going to make a concerted effort with today's prompt.
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Here’s my attempt at a Dialogue Poem:
“Lenore”
He asked, "What do you think?"
She said, "Do what you will."
"But, what do you want?"
She said, "I want you to thrill
at the sound of my voice
and to have a little faith
that I'll support you
no matter what they say."
He asked, "But what if I fail?"
She said, "Don't worry now."
"But," he started, "What if..."
She interrupted, "How
can you keep me from the door?
Talk of such things never more."
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.
