2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 8
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 8 is to write a sentence poem.
For today’s prompt, write a sentence poem. Of course, poets can take this prompt wherever they feel compelled, but by sentence poem, I mean that you should write a poem in one sentence. Note that I didn't say one line, though a one-liner is completely fine if that's all the room you need to write your poetic sentence.
(By the way, I feel a little foolish as my poem attempt yesterday was actually a one-liner sentence, illustrating that I don't look ahead at my own prompts that I've put together.)
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 Sentence Poem:
“Cycles”
I often feel the beginning,
the beginning of anything
really, whether that's a run
through the woods or sun
burning violently in a silent
galaxy as the masses vent
about the latest faux pas
on transient social media
sites (or the late night news
with their assorted views
that some must defend),
is as good as the very end.
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.
