2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 14
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 14 is the second Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
It's hard to believe, but we're already finishing the second week of this challenge. Good poeming!
Today is the first Two-for-Tuesday prompt, and it's my favorite recurring prompt:
- Write a love poem, or...
- Write an anti-love poem.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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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.
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Here’s my attempt at a Love and/or Anti-Love Poem:
“Seasons”
The way an autumn wind pulls
all the color from a trembling tree
before soaking it in rain is nothing
contrasted to the lone thought of losing
even one day with you beside me
as approaching winter cools.
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.
