2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 6
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 6 is to write an advice poem.
For today’s prompt, write an advice poem. It's a common human activity: to give and/or receive advice...on everything from how to cook a nice chili to how to process emotions (or manage finances). Some advice might be as simple as to bring an umbrella to as complicated as how to game the stock market. So consider advice you've given and/or received and make it a poem.
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 an Advice Poem:
“truce,” by Robert Lee Brewer
as she absently reached back into the chip bag
he thought about advising her to not give
into temptation & opened his mouth before
remembering his grandfather telling him
a wise man wins every battle he doesn't start
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