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
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.
