2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 11
For today’s prompt, write a lost poem. I’ve actually lost poems over the years (poems that I’m sure we’re my finest work), whether losing the physical copy written on a Post-It note or piece of paper…or from lost posts when we’ve migrated our site content. But a lost poem doesn’t have to be about losing a poem; it can be about losing a person, place, thing, state of mind, etc. There are so many things to be lost that this might produce several lost poems.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
Note on commenting: If you wish to comment on the site, go to Disqus to create a free new account, verify your account on this site below (one-time thing), and then comment away. It’s free, easy, and the comments (for the most part) don’t require manual approval like on the old site.
*****
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.
*****
Here’s my attempt at a Lost Poem:
“my cool,” by Robert Lee Brewer
for a moment
a flicker of time
between the furious beat
of a hummingbird’s wings
i almost lost it
but then
in the nick of time
before i said something
they might regret
i found it
sparkling
like fresh dew
on a spring morning
as the sun breaks
over the horizon
of whatever
almost
set me off