2016 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 15
For today’s prompt, we’re on our third two-for-Tuesday prompt. So pick one, combine both prompts into one poem, or write two (or more) different poems. Here are the prompts: *****…
For today’s prompt, we’re on our third two-for-Tuesday prompt. So pick one, combine both prompts into one poem, or write two (or more) different poems. Here are the prompts:
- Write a natural poem. A poem about something natural. It could be a natural way of living, something made of natural materials, nature itself, or some other spin. Or…
- Write an unnatural poem. Take the natural prompt and spin it around the other way. Maybe this means writing a poem about processed food, supernatural apparitions, or some other unnatural object.
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Here’s my attempt at a Natural and/or Unnatural poem:
“Practice Makes Perfect”
My son and I show up at the baseball
diamond with our new ball gloves to practice
the fundamentals of pitch and catch and
swinging the bat. Of course, he wants to bat
first, which is fine, I think, because I can
show him how good a pitcher I was when
I was his age. So I show him how to
stand in the batter's box and strut out to
the mound before unleashing my first pitch
ten feet above his head or the next one
that travels behind his back or the next
dozen that all miss their mark. When I was
young, I could pick a location and strike
out batters all day. The act of throwing
was always so natural, but it was
natural because practice makes perfect.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of the poetry collection, Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He edits Poet’s Market and Writer’s Market, in addition to writing a free weekly WritersMarket.com newsletter and a poetry column for Writer’s Digest magazine.
He used to spend hours practicing his pitches, but he really can't hit the side of a barn nowadays. So it goes.
Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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Find more poetic goodies here:
- WD Poetic Form Challenge: Trimeric. (Deadline: 11/30/16.)
- Rimas Dissolutas: Poetic Form.
- Bryan Borland: Poet Interview.
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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.
