2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 6
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 6 is to write a Better Blank poem.
For today’s prompt, take the phrase "Better (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: "Better Watch Out," "Better Late Than Never," "Better Luck Next Time," and/or "Better You Than Me." Better get poeming!
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 Better Blank Poem:
“Better I Don't Know”
What happens at night,
the things that creep and
crawl without the light,
let them do their thing,
I suppose, as long
as I never know.
Spiders, roaches, and
the rest can wander
through my nightly rest
as my dreams at night
are filled with the things
most seen in the light.
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.
