2023 April PAD Challenge: Day 28
Write a poem every day of April with the 2023 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a You Are Blank poem.
Three days! Including today, that's what we've got remaining. Let's make them count. (And yes, I'm still hoping to get those November PAD Chapbook Challenge results announced before May.)
For today's prompt, take the phrase "You Are (blank)," replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "You Are My Only Hope," "You Are Really Pushing It," "You Are in the Wrong Room," and/or "You Are a Poeming Machine."
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 You Are Blank Poem:
"you are not going to believe this"
but a dog ate my homework
& a kaiju ate the dog
& the military bombed the kaiju
& it was all kept hush-hush
because you know it's the government
& then i tried to take a bus
but i had to attend a funeral
for the poor hangry dog
& the underfed kaiju
& conduct exit interviews for the military
& the government wiped my mind
but the mind-wipe only lasted so long
because it was government issue
& anyway could i have an extension on the assignment
or what
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.
