2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 12
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 12 focuses on the future.
For today's prompt, write a future poem. The future could mean years into the future, or it could be less than a minute. Or it could be a poem in the past that looks at the future that is still in our current past. Time travel is so tricky.
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 Future Poem:
“Don't Tell Me”
Read my palm
or draw some cards
if you think it will show you
my future,
but I'll not
wait around for what you
find in the ruins
of old runes--
my future
may be found in the stars
but I'll not leave it up to chance
or some fate
driven by
a well-shined crystal ball;
to be or not to be, you see,
is not what
I want to see.
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.
