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2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 9

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.

Today is a Two-for-Tuesday prompt. Write one of the following (or both):

  • Write a hunter poem.
  • Write a hunted poem.

Here's my attempt:

"seasons"

occasionally she hunts
for arts & crafts projects
& experiments

with paints & yarns
glue guns & mason jars
felt & popsicle sticks

one week batik
the next baskets
& always something new

around the corner
as if trying to throw him
off her scent

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Workshop Your Poetry!

Writing poetry is exciting, but the hard work of poeming is working through the revision process. The best way to work through this process is to workshop the poems with other poets, and that can be done with the Writer's Digest 6-week course, Advanced Poetry Writing.

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