2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 11
For the 2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Day 11 is to write an odd poem.
This has been an odd week at the Brewer household. We started off with a bunch of healthy Brewers, and then three out of five got sick. Everyone appears to be getting better, but it was not a normal week at all. Sooooo...
For today’s prompt, write an odd poem. The poem could be about something outside the ordinary (or odd). Of course, today is the 11th, and 11 is an odd number. So there's another odd possibility for your poem...to write about odd numbers. But, you know, I'll probably accept about any odd ideas you might have today (or any day really).
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 Odd Poem:
“Prime Numbers”
Well,
after
two, you know,
they're all really odd.
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.
