2021 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 13
For the 2021 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 luck poem.
For today's prompt, write a luck poem. I will admit that I picked today's prompt based solely off the day of the month. 13 is an unlucky number for some, and a lucky number for others. However, you don't have to write a poem based off numbers. You can write about horseshoes, four-leaf clovers, or something completely unrelated. Also, the luck can be good, bad, or somewhere in between.
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 Luck Poem:
“falkor”
when i was a boy
i was fascinated
& repelled by
a white luckdragon
named falkor that
seemed nice enough
& could fly & didn't
appear to breathe fire
but like most things
in neverending story
seemed to balance
on the extraordinary
& the sinister & maybe
it's true that i wondered
what it would be like
to fly along on his back
but i've always been more
than a little afraid of heights
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.
