2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 18
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an ekphrastic poem.
Every three days, we're 10% closer to finishing this challenge, so we'll be at 60% after today's poem. Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing, but it's a thing...a math thing.
For today's prompt, write an ekphrastic poem. An ekphrastic poem is one in which the poet writes a poem based on another work of art, whether that's a painting, photograph, sculpture, mixed media, or other piece of art.
So maybe you have a piece of art in mind that you'd like to use as your inspiration. If you're not sure, just Google one of these phrases: "contemporary paintings," "contemporary sculpture," or "contemporary mixed media" and click on the Images tab at the top of the page. You'll be provided with plenty of ekphrastic possibilities.
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 Ekphrastic Poem:
"le champ de mars"
the green man hovers over paris with her
& speaks only with his mind as she coos
at the bird below them in the twilight
flowers spreading like fire & like children
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.
