2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 10
Wow! I can’t believe we’re already a third of the way through this challenge (after today’s poem anyway).
For today’s prompt, write a poem with 10 or fewer words. Keep it short, keep it poetic. (And if you want to bend the rules a bit, I’ll allow people to repeat the same word; so theoretically, a poet could write a 30-word poem that only uses 10 unique words.)
Also, for inspiration, I wanted to share this fun 8-worder from earlier in the month by Amy Hadley for Day 6’s poetry prompt (to write an advice poem):
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 hundreds of 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 10 Words or Fewer Poem:
“Independents,” by Robert Lee Brewer
We followed them to the cliff
but didn’t jump off.