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2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 5

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 5 is the first Two-for-Tuesday prompt.

Today is the first Two-for-Tuesday prompt of 2024, and I'm kicking it off with my favorite recurring prompt:

  1. Write a love poem, and/or...
  2. Write an anti-love poem.

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

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Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, by Robert Lee Brewer

Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer's Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.

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Here’s my attempt at a Love and/or Anti-Love Poem:

“sigh”

recalling your smile--
a sunbeam lights the last flower
before autumn's frost.

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