2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 18
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 18 is to write a how many chances poem.
For today’s prompt, write a how many chances poem. Some people seem to get a million chances to do the right thing (and never seem to do it), while others might only get one chance to "make it" (with varying results). If you're playing video games, you might get many; if you're playing the stock market, well, there may only be a finite number of chances. So take a chance on writing a poem about chances 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 How Many Chances Poem:
“until the end,” by Robert Lee Brewer
each time he asks
for another chance
he says it's the last
time that he'll ask
for another chance.
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