2021 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 10
For the 2021 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Today’s prompt is to write a nature poem.
For today's prompt, write a nature poem. Of course, you can write a poem about trees, rivers, and birds for this prompt, but you can also take on other connotations of nature, whether that's human nature, the nature of love, and/or anything else that comes naturally. Or just write that poem about a bird in a tree beside a river. Whatever floats your poem.
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 Nature Poem:
“naturally”
the words just aren't coming
naturally anymore but they will
as i watch outside the windowsill
birds flying to and fro and always
singing and living and on the go
in a tree beside a river or a river
beside a tree i'll write though it
doesn't come too naturally
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.
