2023 April PAD Challenge: Day 16
Write a poem every day of April with the 2023 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a The Blank of a Blank poem.
For today's prompt, take the phrase "The (blank) of a (blank)," replace the blanks with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "The Beginning of a Story," "The Wrong Side of a Situation," "The Apple of an Eye," and/or "The Latest Excuses of a Continuing Problem."
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 The Blank of a Blank Poem:
"the mind of a poet"
splashes through rivers
and stumbles through deserts
always searching and asking
what where when and why
without a way to know how
to take the thread of thought
and make a special garment
always toiling and failing
to get it exactly right
but never resting nor
giving up the fight to find
that one perfect song
burning through the forest
of what could be a soul
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.
