2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 13
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 13 is to write a luck poem.
For today’s prompt, write a luck poem. With it being the 13th, you might be tempted to write a bad luck poem. But there's no reason you couldn't also write a good luck poem. Or write a poem that debates whether luck exists at all. May we all have good luck writing our poems today.
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 Luck Poem:
“Pennies”
When I was younger
I had an eye for finding
pennies everywhere,
and they were all,
to me, lucky pennies,
worth more in luck
than in material wealth,
and I would pick up
each one and flip it,
and if it landed heads,
then it was lucky, and
if it landed tails, well,
it was still lucky, and
in many ways I suppose
I made my own luck
by always believing
it could be found
lying on the ground.
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