2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 23
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 23 is to write a wanted poem.
For today’s prompt, write a wanted poem. Most (maybe all) people want to be wanted in one way or another. But there are also those Western "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters, "help wanted" signs, and other types of wanting. For this prompt, write a poem about being the wanter, wantee, or wanting.
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 Wanted Poem:
“needs,” by Robert Lee Brewer
it's good to feel wanted
but needed is better
wanted's a stylish hat
needed is a sweater
that blocks out winter's cold
while the hat's in fashion
and looking very bold
though it has no passion
for keeping someone warm
in the day and the night
to be needed is great
but wanted is alright
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.
