2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 4
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a mistake poem.
It was fun watching all the music-related posts yesterday. Hopefully, today's prompt is not a mistake, because...
For today's prompt, write a mistake poem. Everyone makes mistakes. Yes, even that person standing in the corner shaking their head to the contrary. And even those people who don't admit to making mistakes have seen others make them. So whether it's the mistakes you've made, witnessed in others, etc., write a poem about it today.
BUT (and yes, I'm using a big "but" here) poem nicely to each other today. I would hate to remove anyone for getting into arguments about X, Y, or Z in the comments; that's why social media was created.
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 Mistake Poem:
"Self-Driving Cars"
I start driving the kids to their school
only to realize that I am a fool,
because I'm driving their mom to work,
so I pass by the school like a jerk
and take the scenic route as if planned
when really I'm just a distracted man
who lapsed into auto pilot mode
driving around my most precious load.
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.
