2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 10
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 10 may (or may not) be a bit of a struggle.
For today's prompt, write a struggle poem. For some people, every day is a struggle. But with what? Or with whom? Or how is it a struggle? Maybe it's writing a poem; maybe it's making ends meet; or perhaps it's just finding something to occupy your time and interest. I hope today's poem is not a struggle to write.
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 Struggle Poem:
“Last Piece”
The last piece of anything,
I admit, is a struggle
for me to not complete,
whether it's finishing
a puzzle or eating
the very last piece of pizza
or the final line of a poem,
even this one, when I find
myself constantly thinking
of just one more thing
to write.
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.
