2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 13
For the 2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Day 13 is to write a luck poem.
For today’s prompt, write a luck poem. Good luck, bad luck. If you're lucky, you've already got the beginnings of a poem rolling around in your head. And if you're not lucky, make your own luck and write one anyway.
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 Luck Poem:
“for some people,” by Robert Lee Brewer
for some people
there's no luck
in waking up
each morning
it's just a thing
that happens
to everyone
all the time
for some people
every morning
is a lucky day
to still exist
it's just a thing
that almost
did not keep
happening
for some people
it's just lucky
to live & love
for some people
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.
