2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 22
For today’s prompt, write a machine poem. Your poem could be about a machine or just mention one in passing. Of course, there are very complex machines in our technologically advanced culture, but don’t overlook simple machines like levers, pulleys, and screws.
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 Machine Poem:
“When the Robots Come,” by Robert Lee Brewer
When the robots come to their own
way of processing their meanings,
will they choose to leave us alone?
When the robots come to their own
conclusions of what’s right and wrong,
will we learn in time their leanings?
When the robots come to their own
way of processing their meanings?