2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 29
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 29 features our fifth (and final) Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
It's not often we get five Two-for-Tuesday prompts in a challenge, but this has been a special kind of month.
For this week's Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
- Write a truth poem, and/or...
- Write a dare poem.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Play with poetic forms!
Poetic forms are fun poetic games, and this digital guide collects more than 100 poetic forms, including more established poetic forms (like sestinas and sonnets) and newer invented forms (like golden shovels and fibs).
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Here’s my attempt at a Truth and/or Dare Poem:
“perspective”
there are objective truths,
for sure, but maybe fewer
than we like to admit
for instance, someone
looking down on the world
sees things different than
someone who looks up
and many of us hear
a different tree falling
in the woods from a distance
my truth exists and
your truth exists the same
even if they're not the same
and we need to find,
for instance, someone
to understand we're different
with different truths
trying to interpret it all
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.
