2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 1
For the 2022 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. Day 1 is also the first Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
It's time for another November poem-a-day challenge. It's free and anyone can jump in, play, and poem along (guidelines here). It's also the first Two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means you can pick one of two prompts, both prompts, or whatever you feel like really. So let's do this already!
For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
- Write a beginning poem, and/or...
- Write an ending poem.
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 Beginning and/or Ending Poem:
“the never-ending march”
it often feels when one month ends
the very next month just begins
without any farewells to send.
just like that another month ends
and so it goes and time depends
on the march that will always win
month after month and each one ends
just as the next starts to begin.
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.
