2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 1
Let’s get this 2024 November Poem-A-Day Chapbook Challenge started. It’s free and anyone can jump in, play, and poem along (guidelines here). The goal is to write a poem each day in November and then assemble a chapbook!
For today’s prompt, write a before you leave poem. Hopefully, nobody’s thinking about leaving this challenge yet, but we are all leaving October. And since it’s Friday, many of us may be leaving the work week. And well, we’ve all likely left other people, places, and things over the years. Think about those situations for this poem.
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 Before You Leave Poem:
“i wanted to tell you”
i wanted to tell you
but the planet was spinning
as the comet departed
& i loosened my belt
in the broken universe
filled with words unsaid.