2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 4
For today’s prompt, write a catching poem. People can catch a ball, a cold, a fish, or a fever. It’s possible to catch a line or someone’s drift (or meaning). I hope everyone catches fire today with poetic inspiration.
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 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 Catching Poem:
“A Catch”
They say what goes up must come down,
the earth is flat, and the world is round;
never count your chickens before they hatch,
because there’s always some hidden catch;
and I know what they say is mostly true,
but every catch is worth loving you.