2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 9
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 9 is to write a weird poem.
For today’s prompt, write a weird poem. I, of course, know that one person's weird is another person's normal, but this might be a good opportunity to write about werewolves and/or wererabbits...or possibly a talking pineapple...or a door that leads to the original Woodstock concert festival (or an Edgar Allan Poe story). And keep in mind that weird doesn't have to be fantastic; for instance, I (like many people) find it weird when two socks go into the laundry and only one makes it back.
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 Weird Poem:
“Weird Moments,” by Robert Lee Brewer
It's funny,
but I often find
the weirdest moments
are the ones when
nothing is happening at all
almost like the calm before the storm
of the normal reactive chaos
of being alive.
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.
