2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 19

For today’s prompt, write a customized poem. Could be about the process of customizing a car or how you order a meal. In some ways, a customized anything is an ideal form of that anything (if that helps you figure a way in to this poem).

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

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Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.

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Here’s my attempt at a Customized Poem:

“The Perfect Day”

We could wake up in Paris
or along the River Thames,
have a beignet in New Orleans
or gourmet tacos in Austin.
Honestly, anything will do
as long as I spend it with you.