2020 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 25
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 an exaggerated poem.
For today’s prompt, write an exaggerated poem. Make it bigger; make it smaller; and/or make it whatever, as long as you exaggerate! Have fun with your poems more than ever today.
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 Exaggerated Poem:
“Tell Myself Again & Again”
About the slow motion
wild animal charging
& howling out of the darkness
forever chasing me off the cliffs
of despair & onto the backs of giant
fish with golden wings & silver tongues
filled with golden advice dripping blood
oaths & promises never kept...
well...
I tell myself again
& again & again until
I almost believe these
exaggerated versions that
seem a little larger than life
each time in each iteration &
I hear myself howling & snarling
& running into the light from somewhere
quite without it.
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.
