2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 8
For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 8 is to write a more poem.
For today’s prompt, write a more poem. Do you want more of anything, whether that's more time to write, more cake, or more cowbell? Is it better to have more, or can less be just as good or better? I want to see more poems that explore more (or less) of the concept of more. More poems please.
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 More Poem:
“More Than Meets the Eye”
As a kid, I did not realize my eyes
were captivated by mere commercials
when I thought I was watching cool cartoons;
each episode was an ad for a new
action figure or play set; so many
to buy and to get. From Transformers to
G.I. Joe to He-Man, and even I
can't look beyond it now. Some way, somehow
I needed more-more-more now-now-now, but
then again, maybe not. Nostalgia leads
to memory, but also leads to rot.
