2020 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 10
For the 2020 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 two-for-Tuesday prompt is to write an easy and/or difficult poem.
Today is another two-for-Tuesday prompt day. You can pick one prompt, pick both prompts, or even write one poem that attempts to do them both.
For today’s prompt:
- Write an easy poem, and/or...
- Write a difficult poem.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at an Easy and/or Difficult Poem:
“tell myself”
It's easy to know what is real
and what is just a stupid dream.
It's not as if it's some big deal
to figure out just what is real,
and what it is I merely feel
could be much more than what it seems--
it's easy to know what is real
and what is just a stupid dream.
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.
