2021 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 2
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 ready and/or not ready poem.
It's great to see so much poeming and commenting yesterday. It's not often we get to start a poem-a-day challenge on a Monday, so it's not often we get a Two-for-Tuesday prompt on day two of the challenge, yet here we are! (And yes, it does mean we'll have five such prompts this month!)
If this is your first Two-for-Tuesday prompt, you have the option of writing to one of the prompts and/or both the prompts. For today’s prompt:
- Write a ready poem, and/or...
- Write a not ready 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 Ready and/or Not Ready Poem:
“just following the road”
i think i'm ready to go
but maybe i don't know
i guess i could worry & fret
or wait & see what i get
when i was young & wanted to know
where it was we were going to go
i was usually (always) told
"we're just following the road"
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.
