2019 April PAD Challenge: Day 9

Time for our second Two for Tuesday of the month! Pick one prompt or use both…your choice!

1. Write a love poem. All you need is love.
2. Write an anti-love poem. Or not.

Remember: There are many forms of love: romantic love, friend and family love, love of being alive, etc.

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Poem Your Days Away!

Online poetry prompts are great! But where can you get your poem fix when you unplug? The answer is the Smash Poetry Journal, by Robert Lee Brewer.

This book collects 125 poetry prompts from the Poetic Asides blog, gives poets plenty of room to write poems, and a lot of other great poetic information. Perfectly sized to carry in a backpack or purse, you can jot down ideas for poems as you’re waiting in line for a morning coffee or take it to the park for a breezy afternoon writing session (or on a bus, at a laundromat, or about anywhere else you can imagine–except under water, unless you’re in a submarine or a giant breathable plastic bubble).

Anyway, it’s great for prompting poems, and you should order a copy today. (Maybe order an extra one as a gift for a friend.)

Click to continue.

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Here’s my attempt at a Love and/or Anti-Love Poem:

“i won’t”

i won’t fall in love again
it’s far too much for me
i don’t need another fish
i don’t need another sea

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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He’s in love with his amazing wife (and poet) Tammy Foster Brewer. Follow him on Twitter @RobertLeeBrewer.

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