2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 3
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 3 is to write a correspondence poem.
For today’s prompt, write a correspondence poem. For me, correspondence usually makes me think of writing letters and/or communicating with people through the mail. But there are also correspondent reporters and correspondent representatives. And honestly, correspondence can mean a close similarity or connection (so nothing to do with communication at all). So take correspondence wherever you need for today's 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 Correspondence Poem:
“correspondence,” by Robert Lee Brewer
i don't receive many letters in the mail
though i also never seem to send any
like all the calls i never seem to get
or give & i wonder sometimes
if correlation can be causation
when it comes to connection
so i'm sending up a signal tonight
for anyone who receives it alright
let's correspond in our subtle ways
through poetry written for days
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