2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 5
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a Tell Blank poem.
For today's prompt, take the phrase "Tell (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: "Tell It Like It Is," "Tell Me Something Good," "Tell the World What You're Thinking," and/or "Tell It Slant."
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 Tell Blank Poem:
"Tell Me Later"
At this moment
as the light fades
on the western horizon
I have found all language
bounds to fall short
of what my heart
wishes to convey.
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.
