2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 22
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 22 is to write a machine poem.
For today’s prompt, write a machine poem. Your poem could be about a machine or just mention one in passing. Of course, there are very complex machines in our technologically advanced culture, but don't overlook simple machines like levers, pulleys, and screws.
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 Machine Poem:
“When the Robots Come,” by Robert Lee Brewer
When the robots come to their own
way of processing their meanings,
will they choose to leave us alone?
When the robots come to their own
conclusions of what's right and wrong,
will we learn in time their leanings?
When the robots come to their own
way of processing their meanings?
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.
