2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 11
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a memory poem.
Wow! This month is just flying by.
For today's prompt, write a memory poem. The poem could conjure up an actual memory that you have from your childhood, or last week, or earlier this morning. Or the memory could be made up. Or the memory is just a starting point for a completely different poem. Your memories, your poems.
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 Memory Poem:
"Variations on a Digital Clock"
Even now
when the digital numbers
don't light up
it tells me the time
reminds me of moments
I can't ever forget
stored away in a box
a memento
of a childhood
that time counted down.
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.
