2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 8
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a major event poem.
Congratulations! We've made it through the first week of this poeming challenge and are working our way into week two.
For today's prompt, write a major event poem. The major event could be something historical. Or it could be something personal (like a wedding or graduation). Whatever the major event, make sure you get some major poeming down today.
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 Major Event Poem:
"Dear Moon"
How foolish we must seem
crowding together for fun
to watch you silently
pass between us and the sun,
inspiring short poems
and many planned lovers' trysts:
You call it existing,
and we call it an eclipse.
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.
