2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 27
For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 27 is to write a nice poem.
Happy Thanksgiving! I know not everyone on here celebrates this day, but it's big for my family, as it's often one of the few times (and sometimes the only time) all year that we are ALL able to get together and get each other laughing so much that we can barely breathe (which is a good thing). I'm thankful for another year of us gathering together to poem, speaking of which...
For today’s prompt, write a nice poem. I mean, there have been a lot of really nice poems written this month already, but I'm thinking of nice as being the opposite of mean. Still, my interpretation doesn't matter, because you can take nice in whatever direction you'd like.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them. If you have a wild idea, follow it.
Note on commenting: If you wish to comment on the site, go to Disqus to create a free new account, verify your account on this site below (one-time thing), and then comment away. It's free, easy, and the comments (for the most part) don't require manual approval like on the old site.
*****
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.)
*****
Here’s my attempt at a Nice Poem:
"Thanksgiving"
Tonight, it's enough
to sit on this couch
cuddled close and
watching the kids
act out their roles
and to know we'll
have another day
to live and love
together.
