2020 April PAD Challenge: Day 2
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a space poem.
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a space poem.
Welcome to day two of the April Poem-A-Day Challenge. Anyone can show up for one day; it's the people who show up for the second day who are really in this challenge to get their poem on.
For today’s prompt, write a space poem. Your poem could be about outer space or inner space. It could opine on the social spacing much of the world is currently doing. Or poets can write an ode to having the space to write or read or whatever. Honestly, I'll be disappointed if there isn't a Star Wars or Star Trek inspired poem today. Now, I'll back off and give everyone plenty of space to write their poems 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 Space Poem:
"Relatable"
He said he needed space
until she found someone
to occupy his place.
Now he wants to get close
but she says he can have
all the space that he chose.
In the future he'll see
that space is relative
to relativity.
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.
