And now, we’re suddenly a week through this challenge. After we get through today’s prompt. Sooooo…
For today’s prompt, write a feeling poem. Pick a feeling (or emotion) and write about it. Or write about feeling something with your hands (because maybe you’re blindfolded or something). Or, perhaps you’re feeling something, like a vibe, and need to write that poem. Search your feelings and write your poem.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Share your poetry for a chance at $1,000!
For the 21st Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards, poets will have the ability to enter single-poem and/or poetry chapbook categories for an opportunity to win $1,000 cash and be featured in an issue of Writer’s Digest magazine. Any form of poetry is eligible including epic, free verse, odes, pantoums, sonnets, villanelles, and even haiku. This is the only Writer’s Digest competition exclusively for poets. Check out the full guidelines to learn how to turn your poems into cash and an article about you.
(Note: This is completely separate of the November PAD Chapbook Challenge.)
Here’s my attempt at a Feelings Poem:
One day, I’m anxious;
the next, I’m ecstatic;
and then, I’m worried
before feeling incredibly
tired, like the end is here
or already passed, but that
I know there’s still more to do
(always so much to do),
and really,
I just want to take a moment
to get up in my feels
and maybe take a nap
or read a book; and then,
start over again.
