2023 April PAD Challenge: Day 19
Write a poem every day of April with the 2023 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a taste poem.
We've already written poems related to smell and to sound, so let's keep the senses fresh with another sensory poem.
For today's prompt, write a taste poem. Of course, I'm thinking about the taste of food or a bloody lip or (ack!) soap. Ever get a mouthful of water from the ocean? Not the same as a nice cool glass of water, is it?
Also, I'll totally accept other spins on taste, like taste in music or fashion or what-have-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 Taste Poem:
"alarms"
evenings taste the same as mornings
with my mouth upon your mouth
and we're waiting out the world
inside our room while our alarms
keep working and we silence them
as soon as they start and we don't
want to taste the world today but
we probably will eventually and until
then the evenings taste the same as
mornings when we're together again
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.
