2022 April PAD Challenge: Day 25
Write a poem every day of April with the 2022 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a response poem.
Wow! It's time for that final sprint to the finish line. Only five poems left to write after today!
For today's prompt, write a response poem. Your poem could be in response to a popular poem by another poet, sure, but it could also be a response to a poem you wrote earlier this month. In fact, that's how I'm coming at this prompt today.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer's Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.
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Here’s my attempt at a Response Poem:
"Actually"
When it comes right down to it,
the actual heart of it, that is,
I suppose, actually, that I do care
if you're the best or the worst
or somewhere between when
it comes to nearly everything.
(Response poem to what I wrote on Day 8.)
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.
