2020 April PAD Challenge: Day 16
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a “The Last Blank” poem.
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a "The Last Blank" poem.
We're now officially on the second half of this challenge. Let's bring it for these last couple weeks.
For today’s prompt, take the phrase "The Last (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles could include: "The Last Cookie," "The Last Roll of Toilet Paper," "The Lasting Impression," "The Last Word," and/or "The Last Starfighter."
I guarantee this won't be the last prompt of the month. So get your poem on today, and I'll see you again tomorrow.
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 The Last Blank Poem:
"The Last Flights"
The last flights to anywhere
leave contrails to fade in their wake
as the sun watches us turn away
like passengers on a vessel
that may not ever return.
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.
