2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 1

OK, I hope everyone got plenty of candy last night for Halloween, because we're all going to need plenty of energy to poem our way through November this year as we start the 2025 November Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge. Per usual, it's free and anyone can jump in, play, and poem along (guidelines here). The goal is to write a poem each day in November and then assemble a chapbook! Sooo...

For today’s prompt, write an entrance poem. Entrance has a few possible meanings or interpretations. One way is to think of entrance as entering something (like the entrance to a building). But entrance could refer to delighting or beguiling someone. So choose your entrance wisely.

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

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Writer's Digest is celebrating our 20th Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards with new categories and prizes. We’re looking for your best poems of 32 lines or fewer or un-published chapbooks 25 pages or fewer. Any form of poetry is eligible including epic, free verse, odes, pantoums, sonnets, villanelles, and even haiku. This is the only Writer’s Digest competition exclusively for poets. Win cash and an article about you in the July/August issue of Writer’s Digest.

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(Note: This is completely separate of the November PAD Chapbook Challenge.)

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“Ghosting”

Some people know how to make an entrance,
but I honestly prefer to fade in,
and other folks make dramatic exits
as I easily am sure to fade out.
If you see me at all, it is a gift,
for with my presence I am no spendthrift.