2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 8
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a metaphor poem.
And just like that, we're starting week 2 of this challenge. It's time to roll up your sleeves (if you haven't already).
For today's prompt, write a metaphor poem. A simile is when something is like a something else (example: I am like a tree); a metaphor is when something is something else (example: I am a tree). So take a moment to consider possible metaphors and then poem them out.
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 Metaphor Poem:
"meteorite"
i flew silently through
the universe for millennia
frozen & larger than life
never touching or being touched
until your gravity pulled me
through your atmosphere
burning off the excess until
i could fit easily in your hand
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.
