2020 April PAD Challenge: Day 22
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a quirk poem.
For today’s prompt, write a quirk poem. The quirk could be a personal or human quality. Or it could be a quirk of fate.
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 Quirk Poem:
“Patting My Belly”
As long as I can remember,
I’ve played my belly like a drum
from the spring until December.
I don’t know where that quirk comes from.
Perhaps as a small boy, I was
removed from a traveling band
in which I played the maracas
or tambourine in my right hand.
Regardless of what reason–
maybe born beneath a bad sign–
my tum’s a drum in all seasons,
and that’s always suited me fine.
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.
