2023 April PAD Challenge: Day 5
Write a poem every day of April with the 2023 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a Noun in Location poem.
For today's prompt, take the phrase "(noun) in (location)," replace the (noun) with a noun, replace the (location) with a location, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "Dinosaurs in Jamaica," "Popsicle in Cairo," and/or "George in the Trunk of a Buick."
The noun can be singular or plural, proper or common. The location can be a point on the map, but also an abstraction. Have fun with this one.
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 Noun in Location Poem:
"poem in my pocket"
for better or worse
i like to think i
always have one there
burning a hole or
something or something
and anyway what's
wrong with having one
to read or to sing
a single blade of
grass against the world
a stain that cries out
against the specter
of time that consumes
all eventually
