2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 10
For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 10 is to write an advice poem.
Well, once we get through today's poem, we'll be a third of the way through this year's challenge (for the poeming part anyhow). So let's jump into today's prompt.
For today’s prompt, write an advice poem. The advice could be advice you've received from others over the years, or it could be advice that you like to dispense. My main advice with this one is to have fun with it.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them. If you have a wild idea, follow it.
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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.
(Note: This is completely separate of the November PAD Chapbook Challenge.)
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Here’s my attempt at an Advice Poem:
“Make Eye Contact”
Let people know that you see them,
and they'll let you know they know you
see them, and they will either look
away or return your stare, and
in that moment, you will have to
decide whether to hold your gaze
or maybe look away yourself.
