2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 6
After today’s poem, we’ll be 20% of the way through this challenge. Let’s do this! For today’s prompt, write a praise poem. Praise a person; praise a deity; praise your…
After today's poem, we'll be 20% of the way through this challenge. Let's do this!
For today’s prompt, write a praise poem. Praise a person; praise a deity; praise your favorite food. If you ask me, there's not enough praise to go around in this world; let's fix that today--with this poem. Praise someone or something, even if it's just your morning coffee.
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Here’s my attempt at a Praise Poem:
“lollipop”
even though i don't have the patience
to suck you down to the stick & even
though that means i end up chewing
your hard candy that gets stuck on my
teeth & even though your refined sugar
is so bad for me in so many ways i can't
help but praise you for being there when
all i need is a void to fill & a sweet tooth to
soothe
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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 has a definite sweet tooth that is equally happy downing a bag of bite-size Kit Kats as devouring a share-size bag of Skittles--or Sweet Tarts or Peanut M&Ms or about anything else with sugar. He simultaneously wants to praise and curse all things sweet.
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.
