2021 April PAD Challenge Countdown: T-minus 7
Poem along with the second ever April PAD Challenge Countdown, in which Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and a poem (to get things started) in the 10 days leading up to the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an altered song title poem.
For today’s prompt, take a favorite (or maybe not-so favorite) song title, change a word in that title, make the new title the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. A possible titles might include (links to original songs/titles on YouTube): "Stairway to 7-Eleven," "Can't Feel My Toes," "Fly Me to the Airport," and/or "Little Red Kia."
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 Altered Song Title Poem:
"I Heard It Through the Hashtag"
i'm always the first to know
after the news is already trending
& the trend is already bending
this way & that & the other
& i'd say word to your mother
but she's probably already heard
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.
