2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 12
For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) for (blank),” replace the blanks with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: “House for Sale,” “This for That,” “Live for Tomorrow,” and/or “Don’t Forget What You Came Here for Back in the Old Days.” Now write a poem for this prompt!
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 Blank For Blank Poem:
“I Write for a Reason”
I write for a reason,
but it changes over time:
For instance,
once,
I filled an entire notebook
with bad love poems,
because my heart was so big
I thought it might explode,
and another time
my head was so full
I needed to empty it,
because the thoughts like a tsunami
just kept rushing in upon me,
and sometimes,
really,
I just like to,
line by line and
image by image,
play with words and sounds,
and,
of course,
there are times,
I admit,
I have no plan at all,
no secret motive,
it’s just me
figuring out
if there’s anything to say.