2012 April PAD Challenge: Day 14
For today’s prompt, write a doomsday poem. Some of you may remember the world was supposed to end last year (actually twice last year), but that’s nothing new. Every few…
For today's prompt, write a doomsday poem. Some of you may remember the world was supposed to end last year (actually twice last year), but that's nothing new. Every few years there seems to be a new "end of world" prediction (anyone remember Y2K?). In fact, this year had a movie made after it in relation to the Mayan calendar (btw, my dad is one of those who actually believes in the 2012 doomsday prediction), and there's a whole industry built around end times preparations. So why not write a poem about it?
Here's my attempt:
"Tax Day Tanka"
They tried to warn me
(over and over) but I
wouldn't listen, and
now, I'll have to suck it up
and pay everything due.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
