2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 15
For the 2024 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. Day 15 is to write a nameless faceless poem.
For today’s prompt, write a nameless faceless poem. I admit that today's prompt might feel a little more elusive than others I share this month, but I kind of like the ambiguity of a vague nameless faceless person, place, idea, etc. Someone or something shrouded in shadow, fog, smoke, what-have-you. Have at it, poets!
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 Nameless Faceless Poem:
“the only thing to fear,” by Robert Lee Brewer
i don't know what it is
that stalks me at night
beneath electric light
& the moon shining
through a few wisps
of cloud like curtains
& i'm certain someone
or something lurks
behind the bushes
around the corner
waiting only for me
to find it alone.
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.
