2023 April PAD Challenge: Day 26
Write a poem every day of April with the 2023 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a response poem.
For today's prompt, write a response poem. The poem could respond to one of your poems from earlier this month (or ever). Or it could respond to a poem by another poet, whether it's Emily Dickinson or Ocean Vuong.
But why limit it to poetry? You could also write a response poem to the news, to the person who cut you off in traffic, or, well, use your imagination. And then, poem.
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 Response Poem:
"away from the light"
the older i get
the easier it is
i find to forget
the easier it is
to get upset
because i can't
seem to forget
the right things
as the night sings
of the dark things
over which i fret
and i wonder if
this is how i'll
become older
one fret at a time
until the teenager
in the heart of me
is lost to rhymes
i remember but
also somehow
forget as if there
is a line that crosses
out the original line
and here i find
my faulty mind
moves away from
the light and deeper
i fear into the night
(This is a response to my forgive poem from Day 13.)
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.
