2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 27
For today’s prompt, write a remix poem. This is one of my favorite prompts, because it gives everyone a chance to re-engage with a poem (or poems) from earlier in the month. Try fitting a free verse poem into a traditional form, minimize a long poem, or expand a short poem. One thing I often like to do is mix together several of my poems into something new.
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 Remix Poem:
“no nerve,” by Robert Lee Brewer
he thinks what a
miracle to
do anything
at all and he
wonders what might
have happened had
he shared just one
poem he wrote
for her but now
he fears it’s far
too late for he
had no nerve–was
all hesitate
(Note on my remix: This time around, I took my poem from Day 4 and sort of spun it in a different direction. So it was a remix in that the character didn’t share the poem he did in the earlier poem.)