2020 April PAD Challenge: Day 28
Write a poem every day of April with the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a look back and/or don’t look back poem.
Here we are: The final “Two-for-Tuesday” day today. And after today, only two more prompts to go.
For today’s prompt:
- Write a look back poem and/or…
- Write a don’t look back poem. Because some folks just want to keep their eyes on the road ahead.
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 Look Back and/or Don’t Look Back Poem:
“Nostalgia”
I am a sucker for songs that look back
and tell their audience to not look back.
It’s only fitting that I praise sitting
in an empty room taking a look back.
One sucker’s nostalgia is another
sucker’s blues song singing, “Don’t you look back.”
Some fools die of a heart attack, but I’m
not one to tell others when to look back.
There’s a guitar in the hall and a voice
cries out, “Robert Lee Brewer, don’t look back.”
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.
