Time to start the 10th annual November PAD Chapbook Challenge. Let’s get poeming!
For today’s prompt, write a new day poem. Often, I think of a new day meaning a positive move in a new direction. However, it could be the opposite. Or it could be free of positive or negative connotations; instead, just being different. Or a new day that’s completely the same, I suppose. Looking forward to where everyone takes their new days.
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Here’s my attempt at a New Day Poem:
“& suddenly”
i had no desire for sugar
or processed foods or
anything else that might
taste good but tries to kill me
& i went for a run & lifted
weights & even sit ups
were not impossible & i
thought this is amazing
that i’m becoming this
version of myself that i
always thought i could be
until around midnight
when i gave in & had a snack
that turned into a meal that
transformed into a slide
that i hope someday will end
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Robert Lee Brewer
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of the poetry collection, Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He edits Poet’s Market and Writer’s Market, in addition to writing a free weekly WritersMarket.com newsletter and a poetry column for Writer’s Digest magazine.
This is his tenth year of hosting and participating in the November PAD (Poem-A-Day) Chapbook Challenge. He can’t wait to see what everyone creates this month–not only on a day-by-day basis, but when the chapbooks start arriving in December and January. Fun, fun, fun.
Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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Find more poetic goodies here:
- 2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Guidelines.
- Rimas Dissolutas: Poetic Form.
- Why I Write Poetry: JR Simmang.
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