2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 10
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a get blank poem.
Can't hardly believe it, but we'll be a third of the way through this challenge after today's poem.
For today's prompt, take the phrase "Get (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: "Get Smart," "Get Incredibly Overwhelmed by the Beauty of Spring," and/or "Get This Poem Written." Hope you've been getting something out of this year's challenge; I know it's been firing me up.
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 Get Blank Poem:
"get stoned"
i like to think about shirley jackson
and her one short story "the lottery"
in which (spoiler alert) people pull strips
of paper from a box and the "winner"
then gets stoned to death not as a sinner
but as a simple sacrifice that's stripped
of all expectations of chance and free
will though there had to be a moment some
point at which the village agreed this is
the way and i like to wonder how it's
possible to say "let's agree to kill
or be killed in a lottery" but still
i consider the village of my mind
and can't quite believe i could be their kind
(For today's prompt, I wrote a sonnet. If you'd like to play around with form, find more than 160 poetic forms here.)
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.
