Poem-A-Day (PAD) Challenge
I’ve tried this challenge several times now, always with abysmal failure. Perhaps the habit of a daily writing routine is just too foreign to my practice. Who knows? But this year, I have several writing projects in mind that are all outside my comfort zone, and so shaking the dust from my writing habits becomes a necessary practice. The good news – it’s day three of the Poem-A-Day challenge, and I’m hanging on! For anyone interested, I’m using the prompts suggested by Robert Lee Brewer via his wonderful blog “Poetic Asides.”
In the interested of making the PAD challenge a little more orderly for me, and to cut down on the responsibility of “finishing” every poem by forcing it to fit in the box of my preconceived notions, I’ve decided to write all my PAD poems as ten line poems, in five sets of couplets. I’m also trying to write with a different voice, different themes. Different everything, I hope. The pieces are so short they feel like poetic note-taking. I’m also not worrying about editing too much. That is, I’m not worrying about the writing as “final,” I’m not going back and nit-picking, on obsessing. At least not right now. Maybe when the month is over, if it’s worth it, I can go back in and pick, pick pick away.
I thought about trying to post my daily poem here, but that just seems like overkill. And as these aren’t finished pieces, I have no desire to foist them upon unsuspecting readers. Consider yourselves lucky.
