2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 1
The April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge is designed to help poets do one thing and one thing only: Write more poems! The process of revision may go on for weeks, months,…
The April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge is designed to help poets do one thing and one thing only: Write more poems! The process of revision may go on for weeks, months, and years later, but this challenge is all about getting that first draft. Please poem along with us--either in the comments below or silently at home.
For today's prompt, write a new arrival poem. The new arrival could be a baby or a person. The new arrival might be a car or other piece of technology. Heck, the new arrival might be an idea or poem. (Btw, if you're a new arrival to the site and this challenge, take a peak below about commenting.)
Here's my attempt at a new arrival poem:
"new girls"
new girls stop by every other week
it seems now she's not paying attention
as if she cared they would quit arriving
quit driving her insane with their voices
rising through her wood floors batting their eyes
so hard she can hear them upon her door
to find his door is around the back way
o so sorry they say thinking who's she
anyway only to then be replaced
by another before long as if she
even notices distracted as she
is by record albums and damn good books
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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.
