2020 April PAD Challenge: Day 12
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a spirit poem.
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a spirit poem.
For today’s prompt, write a spirit poem. Poets may write about a ghostly spirit. Or pen an ode to the spirits found in a pub or liquor cabinet. Of course, there's also school spirit and the spirit of adventure. Personally, I like The Spirit of comics and radio fame. Let the spirit of poetry lead the way for you today.
Remember: These prompts are just springboards; you have the freedom to jump in any direction you want. In other words, it's more important to write a new poem than to stick to the prompt.
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.
Here’s my attempt at a Spirit Poem:
"L'espirit d'escalier"
Sometimes I feel it come over me
with the first word I write; other times
it's like fog I can see but not touch--
my thoughts rambling and scrambled
like a humpty troubadour, lost
in the forest of no returns.
There's always a cabin with a witch
who's not a witch, her spirit
of self-fulfillment scaring the locals
who need to know they belong,
who long to know they belong,
and with the witch, I find my song,
but I'm always too late to reply
with the newt of an eye
beneath a haunted sky.
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.
