2015 April PAD Challenge: Day 15
After today, we’ll be half way through this challenge. It’s hard to believe, but April is flying by. For today’s prompt, pick an adjective, make it the title of your…
After today, we'll be half way through this challenge. It's hard to believe, but April is flying by.
For today's prompt, pick an adjective, make it the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. If you're feeling stuck on this one, go back through your poems earlier this month and find adjectives you used--if any. Or crack open a dictionary. Or scan other poems for ideas.
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Here's my attempt at an Adjective-Titled Poem:
"broken"
what do you do
when you've dried up all the glue
what do you say
when you've used up all the tape
how do you hope
when you've run all out of rope
how do you start
when you've got a broken heart
where do you run
when the clouds block out the sun
where do you hide
when the darkness spreads inside
how do you love
when you break down & above
& how to start
when you've got a broken heart
can't fix nothing
when you've got a broken heart
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Today's guest judge is...
Alberto Rios
Alberto Rios is the author of 10 books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. In August 2013, Rios was named Arizona's first state poet laureate.
His collections include The Dangerous Shirt; The Theater of Night, winner of the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award; The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, finalist for the National Book Award; and Whispering to Fool the Wind, which won the Walt Whitman Award.
In 2014, Rios was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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Poem Your Heart Out again!
The prompts from last year’s challenge along with the winning poem from each day ended up in an inspired little anthology titled Poem Your Heart Out. It was part prompt book, part poetry anthology, and part workbook, because each day includes a few pages for you to make your own contributions.
Anyway, the anthology worked out so well that we’re doing it again this year, and you can take advantage of a 20% discount from Words Dance by pre-ordering before May 1, 2015.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems.
Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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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.
