2017 April PAD Challenge: Day 4
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Quick note on commenting:I've been receiving reports of comments not taking, but today appears to be worse than normal. Always feel free to contact me at robert.brewer@fwmedia.com to report this stuff. Our tech team will try to figure it out, but in the meantime, one possible "workaround" suggested by Marie Elena Good is to reply to another post. I know it's not ideal, but if you're one of the poets having problems, this might help in the short term.
Today is our first Tuesday of the month. If this is your first poem-a-day rodeo, then I have a special treat for you today, because I do Two-for-Tuesday prompts for these challenges. You can write to one prompt; write to the other; or try to do both. Totally up to you.
Here are the two prompts for today:
- Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to...
- Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.
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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 Beginning and/or Ending Poem:
“crushing”
when the day ends
the night begins
to take the shape
of a love letter
that begins & ends
without a name
where desire begins
reason ends
up becoming
an obstacle
between one heart
beat & the next
love song makes it
begin again
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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). He's always been a teenager at heart.
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.
