2021 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 12
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 raw poem.
For today's prompt, write a raw poem. This poem could be about raw food, I suppose, but also about raw emotion or raw energy. I suppose raw skin is fair game too, though raw language might get hung up in our spam filter.
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 Raw Poem:
“broken heart”
the first time is always the hardest
because you've never experienced
anything like it before & have no idea
what's happening sort of like that first
time going out drinking & waking up
the next morning to lord knows what
happening in your head throbbing only
a broken heart is a lot more raw &
penetrating down into the marrow
of you like the first time experiencing
the death of someone you really love
& being overcome by the fact the last
time you saw them was the last time
& a broken heart is all you're left with
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.
