2021 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 27
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 remix poem.
For today's prompt, write a remix poem. For this poem, take one of your poems (or several of your poems) and make a remixed version that is a completely new poem. This could involve lengthening a short poem or condensing a longer 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 Remix Poem:
“correspondence from november”
send reinforcements
i think i'm ready to go
as the world burns
wandering around with
wondering thoughts
i don't remember
the first time so
maybe it'll do
it's no secret
what i'm thinking
every word i ever
wrote is a lie
in a tree beside
a river or a river
beside a tree
happy beyond what
i realized & then
came the worry
penetrating down
into the marrow
like most things
i can't forget
& realize it could be
two hearts waiting
to fill you with words
on a thursday with
the passage of time
beside the receding
shoreline watching
them drink & dance
& play romantic games
descended from foxes
as i quietly disappear
(Note on my remix: I took a phrase or line from each of the first 23 poems of this month.)
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.
