2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 16
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 16 goes to a panel.
OK, it's all downhill from here. Take that for what it's worth, but we are past the half-way mark now.
For today's prompt, write a panel poem. When I think of panels, I think of groups of people who are on a panel. And maybe they're giving recommendations or just feedback that can be helpful (or not so much). But panels can also be used for ceilings or walls or floors. Heck, there are few things more iconic to me that an old station wagon with wood panels. So poem your way through panels in whatever way suits you.
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 Panel Poem:
“Blood Panel”
The results never worried me much
as a younger person. Honestly, it was
the needle that did that. But now, I can
take the needle, but I don't like the time
between drawing the blood
and learning what the blood has to say
about me and my habits. Maybe it's my age,
but each time they run a blood panel
I feel a little older, a little closer to the end
of whatever it feels like to be young.
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.
