2012 April PAD Challenge: Day 15

For today’s prompt, use the following five words in your poem: slash, button, mask, strap, and balloon. Use them in any order. Here’s my attempt: “Write/Poem” Clear the balconies and…

For today's prompt, use the following five words in your poem: slash, button, mask, strap, and balloon. Use them in any order.

Here's my attempt:

"Write/Poem"

Clear the balconies and strap your masks on:
we have a poem to write slash poem--
to carry like a balloon or to wear
like a button for all others to see.

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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 Solving the World's Problems, 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.