2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 9
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, we have our second two-for-Tuesday prompt.
For today's Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
- Write a love poem, and/or...
- Write an anti-love poem.
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 Love and/or Anti-Love Poem:
"there you are"
every day disappearing into an office
early in the morning and returning late
in the evening sharing stories that often
sound like variations on the same theme
eating (or not eating) the same meals and
doing (or not doing) the same dishes
and washing (or not washing) the same
laundry and both of us gaining and losing
the same weight and going to our doctor
appointments in a perpetual cycle and yet
you have me every day every time with but
a word or a touch or a look and i'm yours
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.
