2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 10
Go, you! After today’s poem, we’ll be one-third of the way through this challenge. So let’s keep it going.
For today’s prompt, write a character poem. Your character could be fictional or nonfictional, well-known or obscure. Plus, you get to decide whether to write in third person about the character or actually become the character in first person. Have fun with your characters today.
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 Character Poem:
“Bartleby”
Whenever I wanted something,
he said, “I would prefer not to.”
It really felt like anything,
whenever I wanted something,
even the smallest, little thing,
he declined without much ado.
Whenever I wanted something,
he said, “I would prefer not to.”
(Note: I used the triolet form once again, and my character is from Herman Melville’s great short story “Bartleby.”)