2020 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 17
For the 2020 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write 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 nice and/or mean poem.
Today is another two-for-Tuesday prompt day. You can pick one prompt, pick both prompts, or even write one poem that attempts to do them both.
For today’s prompt:
- Write a nice poem, and/or...
- Write a mean poem.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Nice and/or Mean Poem:
“questions”
am i being mean when i refer
to the animal as the wild animal
am i being mean for recognizing
its howl as the howl of danger
when it could be the howl of pain
or perhaps even a howl of pleasure
why do i fear the wild animal
charging out of the darkness howling
& why do i feel it wants my blood
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.
