2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 4
Well, we made it through our first weekend, which isn’t easy to do. So let’s keep the poems flowing this week.
For today’s prompt, write a nerves poem. As an empath, it sure feels like many (many) people have been a pile of nerves recently (maybe having to do with something that takes place tomorrow, though maybe for other reasons). But a person can write about being nervous or write about the nervous system. And some folks may not even know what it’s like to get nervous (lucky dogs), and they can write about that. Let’s get nervy 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 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 Nerves Poem:
“some nerve,” by Robert Lee Brewer
you have some nerve
to write me a poem
she said & he said
you have some nerve
to read a poem i wrote
for somebody else
& then they stared each
other down like they were
playing seven-card stud
searching for a tell
before they both broke
into infectious laughter