2023 April PAD Challenge: Day 20
Write a poem every day of April with the 2023 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an animal poem.
For today's prompt, write an animal poem. If you want, make the title of your poem an animal and write your poem. Or perhaps, you could give an animal a cameo somewhere in your poem. Another option is to write a persona poem from the perspective of animal. And I'm sure there are many other options available.
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 an Animal Poem:
"andromeda"
i was born in the year of the horse
the answer a dancer a cancer
under the disco ball moon
reflecting every intention
we intended to pretend we
didn't know we secretly wanted
& here we are along the spine
of some distant constellation
spinning on an axis hurtling
through the solar system
spreading out in a galaxy
colliding with another galaxy
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.
