2019 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 5
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 Two-for-Tuesday prompt is to write a Pleasure and/or Displeasure 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 Two-for-Tuesday prompt is to write a Pleasure and/or Displeasure Poem.
Today is our first Two-for-Tuesday prompt day. Pick one prompt for your poem today, or write a poem for each prompt, or write one poem that works with both. Today's prompts are:
- Write a pleasure poem, and/or...
- Write a displeasure poem.
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Here’s my attempt at a Pleasure and/or Displeasure Poem:
“What do you want to do?”
As a young man, I never understood
why everyone can't enjoy the same plan
thinking a good thing could only be good.
As a young man, I never understood
how one great song makes another's bad mood
and no single tune can please every fan.
As a young man, I never understood
that we'll never agree on the same plan,
but that doesn't mean we can't both have fun
as you read a book while I take a run.
[Note on the form: For today's poem, I wrote a triolet with a couplet added at the end.]
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.
