2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 29
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write an Until Blank poem.
Tomorrow is the final day of this challenge, but remember: This challenge ain't over until it's over, so...
For today's prompt, take the phrase "Until (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: "Until the End of Time," "Until the Cows Come Home," "Until I Finish This Poem," and/or "Until You Get Your Chores Done."
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 Until Blank Poem:
"Until We Meet Again"
I won't curse your name when I can
or think of you really at all.
After all, I'm the kind of man
who forgets to curse when I can,
because it's not part of my plan
or how I think really at all.
I won't curse your name when I can
or think of you really at all.
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.
