2015 April PAD Challenge: Day 5
Heads up: After posting tomorrow morning’s poem, I’m going to be headed up to Ohio to visit my two oldest sons for their Spring Break. I’ll still be posting poems…
Heads up: After posting tomorrow morning's poem, I'm going to be headed up to Ohio to visit my two oldest sons for their Spring Break. I'll still be posting poems and trying to keep an eye on things, but I won't have access to my regular F+W e-mail--and really, I'm going to be devoting most of my time to my children. If any issues come up, e-mail me at robertleebrewer@gmail.com, but I'm sure everything's going to run smoothly and the poems are going to continue flying.
For today's prompt, write a vegetable poem. I once wrote a poem titled "Tomatoes," and that would count. If you want to write a poem about a specific vegetable, go for it. If you want to write a poem that just has a vegetable mixed in somewhere, go for it. If you want to praise or curse vegetables, go for it. If you want to play with the idea of vegetables, including a vegetable mental state, couch "potato," and so on--well, you know, go for it.
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Get Your Poetry Published!
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Here's my attempt at a Vegetable Poem:
"be mine"
be my bell pepper, my sweet pepper,
my i-need-to-eat-you-up pepper
filling my life with color and flavor
be my onion, my georgia vidalia,
layered down to the core and drawing
the tears out of my eyes for wanting you
be my tomato, whether red or green,
cherry or roma, grown here or barcelona,
allow me to bask in your aroma.
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Today's guest judge is...
Denise Low
Denise Low, 2nd Kansas Poet Laureate, is author of 25 books, most recently Jackalope Walks into an Indian Bar (forthcoming); Melange Block (Red Mountain Press); Ghost Stories (Woodley, a Kansas Notable Book; The Circle-Best Native American Books); and Natural Theologies: Essays (Backwaters Press).
Low is past president of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs board. She blogs, reviews, and publishes Mammoth Publications. She teaches professional workshops as well as classes for Baker University's School of Professional and Graduate Studies. She has British Isles, German, and Delaware Indian heritage. Her MFA is from Wichita State University and Ph.D. is from Kansas University.
Learn more at www.deniselow.net.
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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.
