2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 25
For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in November. Day 25 is to write a love and/or anti-love poem.
It's time for the final Two-for-Tuesday prompt of this year's challenge. Veterans of these challenges probably already knew what it was going to be after last week's Two-for-Tuesday prompt, because I always include it.
For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
- Write a love poem, and/or...
- Write an anti-love poem.
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.
(Note: This is completely separate of the November PAD Chapbook Challenge.)
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Here’s my attempt at a Love and/or Anti-Love Poem:
“Lovesick”
As long as I long
I wonder if that
means I am alive
or living a lie
lost in my longing
like a lone madman
wandering the roads
beneath the full moon
long after midnight
thinking my wanting
will make it somehow
manifest like some
long lost destiny.
