2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 24
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 24 is to write a Home Blank poem.
For today’s prompt, take the phrase "Home (blank)," replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "Home for the Holidays," "Home Run," "Home Body," and/or "Home Is Where the Heart Is."
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 Home Blank Poem:
“Home Security System”
We begin with Lego on the floor
and a small squadron of felines
prowling about for somewhere
to sneak a quick cat nap or two
purring into the soft corners of
a sofa and anyway nobody wants
to comb through our elaborate
collection of poetry collections
strewn throughout our domicile
domesticated as I already related
by a flurry of purring fur babies.
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.
