2022 April PAD Challenge: Day 11
Write a poem every day of April with the 2022 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a power poem.
For today's prompt, write a power poem. Your poem could somehow involve electricity, solar power, fossil fuels, wind, or water. It could illustrate a power play or someone exerting their power over someone else. Of course, you could also write about a power outage. You alone have the power to poem your way through this prompt.
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 Power Poem:
"The Power"
I listened to the band Snap!
singing "I got the power"
with that super sweet dance
beat (duh-duh-duh-duh ...
duh ... duh .... duh-duh-duh-
duh ... duh) "yeah, yeah, yeah"
and anyway, I think, yeah,
I got the power to start
doing something powerful
like making a power play
or maybe taking a power walk
but then all I really end up
doing is making a power list
of power moves to make
someday after this power nap.
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.
