2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 7
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 7 is to write a frustration poem.
For today’s prompt, write a frustration poem. Every day, people get frustrated with things, whether it's "potential spam" calls on the phone, a zipper that won't zip, or bad drivers on the roadways. Today is a good day to let out your frustrations in poetic form (but remember to be respectful of fellow poets while doing so). Let's vent together!
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 Frustration Poem:
“The Day After,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Together, we walk in the rain
(because, of course, it's raining)
with our umbrellas shielding us
when she says, I just need to stop.
She's so mad, and she never gets
angry in a way strangers can see.
My glasses fog up as we stand,
and neither of us understands.
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.
