2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 24
For today’s prompt, take the phrase “If You (blank),” replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: “If You Leave,” “If You Think That’s Scary,” “If You Don’t, You’ll Regret It,” and/or “If You Have Trouble Writing a 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 an If You Blank Poem:
“if you’ve forgotten,” by Robert Lee Brewer
if you’ve forgotten that quiet cove
i would call it no lesser love
because i’ve found that love is true
even when it’s just pour vous
& i felt something not that small
compress my insides to a ball
that i could bounce across the floor
until all thoughts that came before
dissolved into a million rays
of energy i burned for days
as if i had become the sun
shining light on everyone
until i melt down to my core
& dimly glow forever more