2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 26
For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 26 is to write a meandering poem.
For today’s prompt, write a meandering poem. The term "meandering" can be used as an adjective or noun and basically means "following a winding course" (or the act of doing so, for the noun). So I'll leave it up to each poet to figure out what a meandering poem means for you. Let's meander together.
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 Meandering Poem:
"While I Have You"
Let's take a stroll through this park
before it gets too dark and wander
along never traveled paths as our
words confuse our brains and hearts
with their possible intentions as we
confess our longings and desires
and maybe there's a chance there
could be more but for now let's
just meander through this maze
of conversational possibility.
