The final week in the Writer’s Digest 2013 November Poem A Day Chapbook Challenge is finally here!
November 23, 2013
Prompt: Write an “I shouldn’t be here” poem. You can decide where you shouldn’t be: maybe it’s a place, maybe it’s a time, or maybe (just maybe) it’s a state of mind.
November 24, 2013
Prompt: Write a poem that responds to a statement.
Freedom is a pretty strange thing. Once you’ve experienced it, it remains in your heart and no one can take it away. – Ai Weiwei
November 25, 2013
Prompt: For today’s prompt, take a poem from earlier in the challenge (that you’ve written) and remix it.
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c.b.w. 2013
C.B. Wentworth 
“No one knows I’m left behind” – that phrase reminds me of the day my son got left behind while on a school field trip. It was just a good thing he had the presence of mind to find a phone and call home! I can’t imagine how scared he must have been. He was only in the second grade.
The second poem ends on a hope-filled note, a promise of something better. 🙂
I like the re-mixed version of your Nov. 1 poem, although the first version was fine, too. 🙂
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That poem was inspired by a fear I once had about being lost and left behind while traveling. Now I welcome it. 🙂
You’ve interpreted the second poem well. 🙂
The remix was an interesting experience. I like both! 🙂
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It’s amazing how the remixed version is just as powerful as the original. All great poems. Inspiring.
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Thanks! It was kind of interesting to watch the remix poem take shape. Who knew the same lines could evolve in a such a way?
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Oh I can so feel the anxious fearful energy swirling about that first poem. Wow.
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Thanks! I was hoping the clipped rhythm would create that anxious feeling. 🙂
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