2025 April PAD Challenge: Day 27

Join poets from around the country and the world to write a poem each day of April. For today’s prompt, write a New Blank poem.

For today's prompt, take the phrase "New (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "New Moon," "New Car," "New Significant Other," "New World," and/or "New to This City."

And yes, it is totally fine to replace the word "new" with the word "knew" if that helps you get your poem out today!

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 a New (blank) Poem:

“New Enough,” by Robert Lee Brewer

I suppose I'm new enough
to not understand, but
I still knew enough
to quietly demand what
I thought should be mine
& that was enough
I thought to break this line
& that was enough
but also not that new,
but also not what I knew.

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 Solving the World's Problems, 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.