2021 April PAD Challenge Countdown: T-minus 9
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 a cause and effect poem.
Here we are: Day 2 of the second ever countdown to the April Poem-A-Day Challenge! Let's keep the momentum going!
For today’s prompt, write a cause and effect poem. When I was a young boy, I liked to run everywhere in my bare feet, which meant I stepped on bees a few summers in a row. Cause and effect. I also liked to splash in puddles...at the expense of dry socks. So think of some cause-effect scenarios and let your poems run barefoot through puddles (metaphorically speaking).
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 a Cause and Effect Poem:
"Contrary"
she says yes
& he says no
she says stay
but he says go
so she leaves
& then he grieves
his own words
that she believed
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.
