2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 9
For today’s prompt, write a weird poem. I, of course, know that one person’s weird is another person’s normal, but this might be a good opportunity to write about werewolves and/or wererabbits…or possibly a talking pineapple…or a door that leads to the original Woodstock concert festival (or an Edgar Allan Poe story). And keep in mind that weird doesn’t have to be fantastic; for instance, I (like many people) find it weird when two socks go into the laundry and only one makes it back.
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 Weird Poem:
“Weird Moments,” by Robert Lee Brewer
It’s funny,
but I often find
the weirdest moments
are the ones when
nothing is happening at all
almost like the calm before the storm
of the normal reactive chaos
of being alive.