2017 April PAD Challenge: Day 4

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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.

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Re-create Your Poetry!


Revision doesn’t have to be a chore–something that should be done after the excitement of composing the first draft. Rather, it’s an extension of the creation process!


In the 48-minute tutorial video Re-creating Poetry: How to Revise Poems, poets will be inspired with several ways to re-create their poems with the help of seven revision filters that they can turn to again and again.


Click to continue.


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Here’s my attempt at a Beginning and/or Ending Poem:

“crushing”


when the day ends

the night begins


to take the shape

of a love letter


that begins & ends

without a name


where desire begins

reason ends


up becoming

an obstacle


between one heart

beat & the next


love song makes it

begin again


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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 always been a teenager at heart.


Follow him on Twitter @RobertLeeBrewer.


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Find more poetic posts here:

37 Common Poetry Terms.
Cywydd Llosgyrnach: Poetic Form.
Jaswinder Bolina: Poet Interview.

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