2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 2

For today’s prompt, we have our first two-for-Tuesday prompt, which means you get two prompts. You can write to one of the prompts, both the prompts separately, or try to write a poem that works with both prompts at the same time. The prompts are:

Write a happy poem, and/or…Write a sad poem.

Two sides of the same emotional coin.

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

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Here’s my attempt at a Happy and/or Sad Poem:

“dust in my eyes”

the older i get
the more i cry

when i’m happy
& when i’m sad

or at the movies
or reading a book

or remembering
a stray moment

i almost forgot
& maybe it’s dust

or perhaps pollen
but i think maybe

it’s just a lifetime
filled with living

& knowing we all
have something

to gain & to lose
& that it’s all so

beautiful no matter
which we choose