2020 April PAD Challenge: Day 21
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a love and/or anti-love poem.
We’re three weeks into the challenge now, which means “Two-for-Tuesday” day today. This is the one I break out every challenge (alumni know which one I’m talking about).
For today’s prompt:
- Write a love poem and/or…
- Write an anti-love poem. Because some folks just aren’t that into love poems.
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 Love and/or Anti-love Poem:
“Unspoken”
Sometimes we don’t say, “I love you,”
or, “Sorry,” after we fight. Instead,
we storm off to our separate corners
and load the dishwasher or fold
the laundry. Then, we meet on the couch
where you ask what I want to watch,
and I hand you the remote and say,
“You pick,” and you select something
we both like, and then, I reach over
to hold your hand, and we both smile.
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.
