2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 16
For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 16 is to write a possible poem.
For today’s prompt, write a possible poem. What's possible? What's impossible? Think about each end of this spectrum, and then, write a poem: A poem that's possible, or not. Your choice.
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 a Possible Poem:
“Thinking About the Past”
When I was young, I thought
I'd be driving a flying car by now
and possibly traveling through time
but definitely making a difference in the world
and maybe I am or I'm not, but I thought (for sure)
I'd have a hoverboard.
