2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 14
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a “from where you’re sitting” poem.
After today's poem, we'll have made it through the first two weeks of April. Woot!
For today's prompt, write a poem inspired only by stimulus from where you're sitting (or standing, if you write will standing). In the past, I've written poems about pencils, characters in books I can see, and things I can see out my window when using this prompt. So consider your immediate surroundings and poem away 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 a "From Where You're Sitting" Poem:
"in bloom"
how many birds descend
before taking off again
how many bees buzz by
on their way to honey
how many days have passed
since i last dreamed of you
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.
