2021 April PAD Challenge: Day 9
Write a poem every day of April with the 2021 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a persona poem (for an inanimate object).
TGIF! But be sure to keep poeming through the weekend.
For today's prompt, write a persona poem for an inanimate object. A persona poem is when you write a poem in the voice of someone (or in this case something) else. So write a poem in the voice of a pair of scissors, a picture frame, smart phone, or some other inanimate object.
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 Persona Poem:
"stone"
i'm no pebble
but i'm sure not a boulder
sometimes hotter
but others colder to the touch
just pick me up
& you'll see i can break a window
or go skipping
across the skin of a pond
break the surface
& submerge myself forever
ever alone
always ever your stone
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.
