2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 25
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 25 is to write a nature poem.
For today’s prompt, write a nature poem. This is one I've used multiple times over the years. I like it, because you can write about the great outdoors type of nature, but also human nature, the nature of various people and things, including the nature of technology, monsters, fiction, etc.
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 Nature Poem:
“Nature Boy,” by Robert Lee Brewer
It's not that I want to run out
and hug every tree. Or lay down
in a meadow, letting butterflies
hover over me. It's just walking
along a trail without asphalt
or congestion seems to center
me, pull me closer to the earth,
and slow down time. I can stop
long enough to think about
nothing, to forget for a while
that anything else exists.
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.
