2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 17
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 17 involves some risk.
For today's prompt, write a risk poem. Most of my family is really into the classic board game Risk, but there's more to risk than fake armies and real dice. Risk may involve asking someone out on a date or applying for a new job. Many people take a (hopefully low level) risk each day on their morning commute. Even trying a new food involves some risk. And yes, of course, writing (and sharing) a poem.
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 Risk Poem:
“Serious Risk”
It's so nice every day
with you in my everyday
plans. I wonder, so content
with our daily, if the content
of our everyday living
still lives up to the living
we imagined with our first kiss
that was, for me, the best first kiss
that I could have imagined
even after all I imagined
every day and for so long,
and now that it's been so long,
would I still be willing to take a risk?
Forever, for you, I would take a risk.
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.
