2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 19
Today is the third Two-for-Tuesday prompt of 2024:
- Write a prepared poem, and/or…
- Write an unprepared poem.
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 Prepared and/or Unprepared Poem:
“standing at the edge of lover’s leap”
he surveys the vast emptiness stretching
out to the horizon and says, i thought
i was prepared, but now that i’m here
it’s clear i need more time to consider
the consequences and perhaps there
are other fish in the sea or, at least,
other ways to express my deep regret
like running a mile or writing a while.
anyway, there will be no leaping today.