2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 7
For today’s prompt, write a frustration poem. Every day, people get frustrated with things, whether it’s “potential spam” calls on the phone, a zipper that won’t zip, or bad drivers on the roadways. Today is a good day to let out your frustrations in poetic form (but remember to be respectful of fellow poets while doing so). Let’s vent together!
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 Frustration Poem:
“The Day After,” by Robert Lee Brewer
Together, we walk in the rain
(because, of course, it’s raining)
with our umbrellas shielding us
when she says, I just need to stop.
She’s so mad, and she never gets
angry in a way strangers can see.
My glasses fog up as we stand,
and neither of us understands.