2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 3
For today’s prompt, write a correspondence poem. For me, correspondence usually makes me think of writing letters and/or communicating with people through the mail. But there are also correspondent reporters and correspondent representatives. And honestly, correspondence can mean a close similarity or connection (so nothing to do with communication at all). So take correspondence wherever you need for today’s poem.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
Note on commenting: If you wish to comment on the site, go to Disqus to create a free new account, verify your account on this site below (one-time thing), and then comment away. It’s free, easy, and the comments (for the most part) don’t require manual approval like on the old site.
*****
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.
*****
Here’s my attempt at a Correspondence Poem:
“correspondence,” by Robert Lee Brewer
i don’t receive many letters in the mail
though i also never seem to send any
like all the calls i never seem to get
or give & i wonder sometimes
if correlation can be causation
when it comes to connection
so i’m sending up a signal tonight
for anyone who receives it alright
let’s correspond in our subtle ways
through poetry written for days