2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 7

OK, we've made it a week (after finishing today's poem). This is a great start! But let's keep it going through the weekend.

For today’s prompt, write a dream poem. The poem could be dream-like, whether it's a nice dream or a nightmare. Or the poem could focus on some dream vacation you'd like to take, dream home to live in, or a dream for all of humanity. Then again, a poem that crushes a dream could work as well. If you can dream it, you can poem 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.

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(Note: This is completely separate of the November PAD Chapbook Challenge.)

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“A Life Without Dreams”

I can't imagine a life without dreams,
without being chased over rooftops
and falling from great heights, having
conversations with old friends and
famous celebrities, achieving greatness,
losing teeth, trapped by fire, falling
in love (or, again, from great heights),
running in place, discussing my dreams
within my dreams with people long dead,
and yet, everything feels so real when
I wake up, as if I were living another life,
if only in dreams.