2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 12
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 12 is to write a Blank For Blank poem.
For today’s prompt, take the phrase "(blank) for (blank)," replace the blanks with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "House for Sale," "This for That," "Live for Tomorrow," and/or "Don't Forget What You Came Here for Back in the Old Days." Now write a poem for this prompt!
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
Note on commenting: If you wish to comment on the site, go to Disqus to create a free new account, verify your account on this site below (one-time thing), and then comment away. It's free, easy, and the comments (for the most part) don't require manual approval like on the old site.
*****
Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer's Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.
*****
Here’s my attempt at a Blank For Blank Poem:
“I Write for a Reason”
I write for a reason,
but it changes over time:
For instance,
once,
I filled an entire notebook
with bad love poems,
because my heart was so big
I thought it might explode,
and another time
my head was so full
I needed to empty it,
because the thoughts like a tsunami
just kept rushing in upon me,
and sometimes,
really,
I just like to,
line by line and
image by image,
play with words and sounds,
and,
of course,
there are times,
I admit,
I have no plan at all,
no secret motive,
it's just me
figuring out
if there's anything to say.
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.
