2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 18
For today’s prompt, write a how many chances poem. Some people seem to get a million chances to do the right thing (and never seem to do it), while others might only get one chance to “make it” (with varying results). If you’re playing video games, you might get many; if you’re playing the stock market, well, there may only be a finite number of chances. So take a chance on writing a poem about chances 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 How Many Chances Poem:
“until the end,” by Robert Lee Brewer
each time he asks
for another chance
he says it’s the last
time that he’ll ask
for another chance.