2014 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 4
Thank you for continuing to rock this challenge! I approved many comments yesterday–so if you’ve been having issues with commenting, I hope they’re cleared up now. Today is our first…
Thank you for continuing to rock this challenge! I approved many comments yesterday--so if you've been having issues with commenting, I hope they're cleared up now.
Today is our first Tuesday of the challenge, and I like to do a Two-for-Tuesday prompt on Tuesdays. You can write to the first prompt, the second prompt, both prompts, or whatever tickles your fancy. Here are the prompts:
- Write a super hero poem.
- Write a super heroine poem.
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Here's my attempt at a Super Hero and/or Super Heroine poem:
"Thor"
So it's kind of weird that Thor
is suddenly a woman, not that it's hard
to visualize a long-haired man
suddenly being a long-haired woman:
I mean, it happens, right? But
in Norse mythology Thor is a hammer
wielding guy who's married to Sif,
a golden-haired goddess. Now Thor
is a hammer wielding goddess,
but maybe--like so many things--
I should've seen this coming,
because I lived through the '80s
and watched Adventures in Babysitting
in which Sara runs around with her
little Thor helmet and hammer
and eventually teaches him
the value of cutting someone
a break. So it's kind of weird
that Thor is a woman, but maybe
we should've known all along.
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He has been to his share of comic conventions, comic shops, and still reads an issue here and there. He's always been a bit more DC than Marvel, but they're all good (even--maybe especially--the indies).
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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.
