2018 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 20

Experienced PAD challenge poets knew today was coming either today or a week from today. So here it is. For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt: ***** Master Poetic Forms! Learn how to…

Experienced PAD challenge poets knew today was coming either today or a week from today. So here it is.

For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

  • Write a love poem. Or…
  • Write an anti-love poem.

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Here’s my attempt at a Love and/or Anti-Love Poem:

“love, at 40”

love, at 40, is no longer about me
as much as it is about our entire team--
the girl and the boy and all three of our teens--
making it to points A, Z, and all between.

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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 always offers a love/anti-love poem day in his monthly challenges. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.

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.