2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 19
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an emotion poem.
For today's prompt, pick an emotion, make it the title of your poem, and write your poem. Possible emotions might include happy, sad, grumpy, angry, scared, and more. In fact, here's a list of feelings to help spark some creative ideas.
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 an Emotion Poem:
"anxious"
my leg won't stop for anything
when i get nervous as a cat
haunted by a red piece of string--
my leg won't stop for anything
whether i dance or if i sing
about frets, so it follows that
my leg won't stop for anything
when i get nervous as a cat...
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.
