2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 19
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 19 is to write a customized poem.
For today’s prompt, write a customized poem. Could be about the process of customizing a car or how you order a meal. In some ways, a customized anything is an ideal form of that anything (if that helps you figure a way in to this poem).
Also, one more way to write a customized poem would be to use a poetic form (here's a list of 100+ poetic forms) and/or customize your own.
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 Customized Poem:
“The Perfect Day”
We could wake up in Paris
or along the River Thames,
have a beignet in New Orleans
or gourmet tacos in Austin.
Honestly, anything will do
as long as I spend it with you.
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.
