2023 April PAD Challenge: Day 8
Write a poem every day of April with the 2023 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a homograph poem.
Somehow we're already starting on the second week of this challenge. Let's keep poeming!
For today's prompt, write a homograph poem. Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Sometimes they are pronounced the same, but that's not always the case. Click here to find a list of homographs, though there are many more homographs than these to use.
Come at today's prompt as you will, but I think at a bare minimum, poets should choose at least one set of homographs to play with in their 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 Homograph Poem:
"bow to close"
put down your bow
and allow me to bow
before you like a present
with a bow i'd like to present
in the present tense
but everyone's so tense
with you carry your arms
with both of your arms
so before you can wound
or somehow be wound
slide your weapon close
and allow me to close
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.
