2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 17
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 17 is to write a craving poem.
For today’s prompt, write a craving poem. Even if some of us won't admit it, we all crave something (and maybe lots of somethings), whether that's fame, fortune, admiration, more time in the day, more sleep at night, fewer commercials, and so on. Think about cravings and write your poem, whether the cravings are yours or not.
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 Craving Poem:
“hibernation mode,” by Robert Lee Brewer
don't take me to the groceries
as the temps begin to go down.
listen: with these plunging degrees,
don't take me to the groceries,
because i want to eat and eat
and find a nice place to lay down.
keep me away from groceries
as the temps begin to go down.
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.
