2023 April PAD Challenge: Day 21
Write a poem every day of April with the 2023 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a six words poem.
After we get through today's poem, we'll be three weeks through this challenge. Wow!
For today's prompt, write poem using at least three of the following six words:
- Bow
- Lean
- Park
- Saw
- Tear
- Wound
For extra credit, use all six words.
Also, feel free to try actually writing a six-word poem if you want (no need to use any of the above words if you go this route, though you could go nuclear and write six six-word poems, each using one of the above words. Any takers?).
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 Six Words Poem:
"starship"
do you not
remember
from the park
we saw it
lean in the
atmosphere
and explode
like a bright
bow or some
exposed wound
in the sky
but no one
shed a tear
instead they
decided
all of them
together
to cheer for
what was built
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.
