PAD Challenge - Day 3

From Robert Lee Brewer:

I’ve found over the years that most people who can make it through three days have the stamina to keep poeming for 30. So let’s get through this together! For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) of Love,” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles could include: “Water Bottle of Love,” “Smart Phone of Love,” “Toothbrush of Love,” “Tweet of Love,” or any number of blanks of love. I actually kind of love this prompt and am surprised I’ve never done it before.

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Note from Victoria... Thanks, RLBrewer, now I have this song stuck in my head and the only phrase I can think of is "Pompatus of Love."

PAD Challenge - Day 2

From Robert Lee Brewer's PAD Challenge:

Okay, the first day is in the books, and it was a lot of fun. But we’ve got plenty of poeming left to go.For today’s prompt, write a “not today” poem. Maybe it’s normal to give in to outside pressures, but not today. Or maybe you’re usually very disciplined in your health and wellness habits, but not today. Or maybe you struggle to write poems, but not today.

PAD Challenge - Day 1

From Robert Lee Brewer:
"Let’s get this poeming party started.

For today’s prompt, write a reminiscing poem. In my mind, this means a poem that remembers something (a moment, a relationship, etc.). The poem could be kind of nostalgic or sharing lessons learned. But for those new to these challenges, you should know that I consider these prompts open to interpretation–so if you have another take, go for it."

Spring

From Tasha:

I was thinking that Spring might be a good subject for our next prompt, however the word spring has at least 4 interpretations if not more, so I thought it might be fun to suggest we pick one or several or a combination of as many as wished for the effort. 

Ingredients

From Paul:

What do you believe about life? What is strength and what are the ingredients for happiness?

Choose one or use as many as you want.

Assonance

Most of our prompts here are for themes or subjects, and that's great, but sometimes I like to do things a little differently -- prompts that focus on process, or different ways of approaching writing. We always come back to what's in our heads and hearts, and what we care about writing about, but sometimes a process-driven prompt can take us to slightly different corners of our heads and hearts.

So here it is. Write a poem that's at least three stanzas long, and each stanza is dominated by a different vowel sound -- a different assonance. I don't mean every vowel sound has to be the same, just that if you read the poem aloud, you'd get a slightly different sense of sound from each stanza.

I'll post one that I wrote this way to give you an idea.

First Memory

From Linda:

Think back to your very first memory and write a poem around it. Your first memory comes about 3-4-5 but it's there.