2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 17
For today’s prompt, write a refresh poem. A person might refresh their browser, or give their home decor a little refresh. Lemonade on a hot summer’s day could be refreshing. And well, a positive news story is refreshing as well. Poems, of course, are refreshing too.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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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 Refresh Poem:
“In Practice”
The best moment
of every hard practice
in high school cross country
was when we gathered
around coach’s car
to collect a small paper cup
of watered down Gatorade
we’d make last
as long as our runs.