2020 April PAD Challenge: Day 19
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a six words poem.
For today’s prompt, write a poem that uses the following six words:
- bump
- embrace
- fixture
- howl
- lonely
- resolve
How did I come up with this list? Actually, it’s a tie-in to our Shakespeare Week that starts today, because the Bard is actually credited with inventing all six of these words. Pretty cool, eh? For sestina fans, I kind of intentionally made it six words for a reason. So let’s get writing!
Remember: These prompts are just springboards; you have the freedom to jump in any direction you want. In other words, it’s more important to write a new poem than to stick to the prompt.
Here’s my attempt at a Six Words Poem:
“Sing”
Let’s resolve this moment,
without an embrace or fist
bump to console us
stuck like a fixture in our
lonely vessels of confinement,
to solemnly yawp and howl!
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.
