2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 11
For the 2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Today’s prompt is to write a Prime Poem.
For the 2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Today's prompt is to write a Prime Poem.
For today’s prompt, write a prime poem. Prime is one of those words I don't often think about, even though it shows up frequently: prime numbers, prime location, prime rib, prime time, Optimus Prime, Amazon Prime, and prime meridian to name a few. So I hope you're primed up to write a new poem focused on this prime word.
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Here’s my attempt at a Prime Poem:
“Poetry, Primed”
If you're ready, then let's write!
We'll rhyme our end words all night.
Maybe break a line or two for fun
and turn a metaphor into the sun.
We can write anything we've seen
though not capture what we mean.
But it's still worth it, just to write!
We'll prime our poetry all night.
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.
