2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 18
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. There’s something funny about Day 18.
For today's prompt, write a funny poem. Of course, funny is subjective, and sometimes it's not even funny (at least in the humorous sense of the word). After all, there are times when something smells funny, tastes funny, or even seems funny (but not ha-ha funny, more weird funny). So get funny today!
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 Funny Poem:
“Funny You Should Say That”
But I don't find it funny
when people make jokes
about other people
for how they look
or what they love
or who or when or
maybe sometimes,
okay, it's okay, I can laugh,
but let's not tonight,
not at someone else's expense.
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.
