2020 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 13
For the 2020 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write 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 luck poem.
For today’s prompt, write a luck poem. Good luck, bad luck, a mixed bag. You decide and then write it.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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The deadline has been extended for the 2020 Writer's Digest Poetry Awards. The extended deadline is November 16!
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Here’s my attempt at a Luck Poem:
“blue”
of course eight is my lucky number
born in an eight-numbered summer
beneath a weeping willow tree
on an island in the sea
of unlived dreams & regret
beyond where all the new suns set
so that i howl beneath the moon
always filling up too soon
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.
