PAD Challenge - Day 10

From Robert Lee Brewer:

Well, we just made it in from Austin. 18 hours, but we’re back home, and the kids are all sleeping in their beds.

Yay! For today’s prompt, write a travel poem. Your poem can be about the process of traveling, planning to travel, vicariously traveling through television programs, or however else you’d like to take this prompt.

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Note from Victoria: After today we are 1/3 of the way there!!! Wahoo!!!

PAD Challenge - Day 9

From Robert Lee Brewer:

"Well, I survived my 10K yesterday and did my final reads in Austin. Later this morning, Tammy and I will be hitting the road to drive back to Atlanta! 

 For today’s prompt, take the phrase “So (blank),” 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: “So Cool,” “So Stupid,” “So Not What I Would’ve Done,” “So Sweet,” or so many other possibilities."

PAD Challenge - Day 8

From Robert Lee Brewer:

Wish me luck! I’m going to run a 10K later this morning in Austin, Texas (not affiliated with the Austin International Poetry Festival). If I go silent for Day 9, something went horribly wrong during the race. 

 For today’s prompt, write a panic poem. There are any number of things a person can panic about, including severe weather, military invasions, or what to wear to an event. And while some may be more life or death than others, that feeling of panic is just as real for a person who has to get up and speak in front of a crowd of smiling strangers as it is for a person hiding in the basement of their house as a tornado approaches.

PAD Challenge - Day 7

From Robert Lee Brewer:

It doesn’t feel like it, but we’re already a week into this year’s challenge. Poem on. 

For today’s prompt, write a discovery poem. This poem could be about making a discovery; it could be about something discovered (by someone or something else); or something you’d like to discover. I can’t wait to discover what new poems poets will create.

PAD Challenge - Day 6

From Robert Lee Brewer:

New day, new city. We’ve made it to Austin–just in time to write a new poem. 

For today’s prompt, write a poem about a sound. The poem could be about a small sound, a loud sound, a happy sound, or a creepy sound. And yes, music sounds count as well.

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Note from Victoria: This prompt immediately brought too many songs to my mind. "... the sound of the men working on the chain gang." "the sound of silence." "stop children what's that sound?" Sometimes it's hard to sort out memory in order to create something new.

PAD Challenge - Day 5

From Robert Lee Brewer:

This is the 10th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge. During the first one, Tammy and I had to hunt down (and pay for) Internet access in a “cyber cafe” (located in an arcade) to post the prompt and poem. Now, we’re in New Orleans (on our way to Austin for the Austin International Poetry Festival), and we have free wifi. We’ve come a long way since 2008. Now, let’s poem! 

 For today’s prompt, pick an element (like from the periodic table), make it the title of your poem (or part of the title), and then, write the poem. Anything goes from hydrogen to oganesson.

PAD Challenge - Day 4

From Robert Lee Brewer:

Today is our first Tuesday of the month. If this is your first poem-a-day rodeo, then I have a special treat for you today, because I do Two-for-Tuesday prompts for these challenges. You can write to one prompt; write to the other; or try to do both. Totally up to you.  

Here are the two prompts for today: 

• Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to… 
• Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.