2017 April PAD Challenge: Day 13
Recently, I recorded a "selfie" poem for my publisher Press 53. Click here to watch me recite "the silence between us" from my collection Solving the World's Problems.
For today's prompt, write a family poem. It could be about your family, someone else's family, a big family, a small family. It could be about one person in the family or a group picture. Your call. Just write that poem.
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Re-create Your Poetry!
Revision doesn’t have to be a chore–something that should be done after the excitement of composing the first draft. Rather, it’s an extension of the creation process!
In the 48-minute tutorial video Re-creating Poetry: How to Revise Poems, poets will be inspired with several ways to re-create their poems with the help of seven revision filters that they can turn to again and again.
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Here’s my attempt at a Family Poem:
“as a parent”
as a parent there is no better time
than that spent with my family
whether the kids are getting along
or annoying each other it's strange
how i look back on even the worst
moments with joy that i was able
to have those moments at all but
as a poet there is no better time
than those hours before & after
everyone in the house is awake
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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 (Press 53). As a parent, he loves his family; as a poet, he loves the quiet moments when he can write.
Follow him on Twitter @RobertLeeBrewer.
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