2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 19
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 19 is the third Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
Today is the third Two-for-Tuesday prompt of 2024:
- Write a prepared poem, and/or...
- Write an unprepared poem.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer's Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.
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Here’s my attempt at a Prepared and/or Unprepared Poem:
“standing at the edge of lover's leap”
he surveys the vast emptiness stretching
out to the horizon and says, i thought
i was prepared, but now that i'm here
it's clear i need more time to consider
the consequences and perhaps there
are other fish in the sea or, at least,
other ways to express my deep regret
like running a mile or writing a while.
anyway, there will be no leaping today.
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.
